Here's Jack Lew's:
“Madlyn” isn’t the proper spelling of Stanley Ann’s mom’s first name.
The “e” was left off; it should be “Madelyn”.
Wonder who filled THAT one out?
I remember seeing this in a thread here, way back ..... I recall the typed stuff at the bottom.
Here's Jack Lew's:
When trying to find the probate records of Charles Rolla (Rollo )Payne ( died October 1968) the establishment of the Madelyn Payne Durham trust that O lists on schedule e of his taxes; o
ne thing that stuck out was multiple spelling of names. Maddy became head of the trust escrow dept moved to the penthouse and became BO legal guardian about the time of probate. NOTHING surprises me about that woman or anything she may have had a part in!
It could be a legitimate signature. Introduction of subtle differences is a good security trick. Signatures are not even supposed to be your name, written by hand - they are supposed to be unique handwriting that is tough for a stranger to copy correctly. My own signature, for example, does not exactly spell out my name - it begins with characters, but then quickly devolves into something completely different.
Yet another aspect is that signatures are formed in adolescence, when young people start needing them. They could prefer a different form of their name then. Obama's grandmother was born in 1922, and her signature was probably fully defined by 1942. It was 70 years ago; many styles and fashions changed since then.
Of course, it should be trivial to find a few papers with her true signature and compare. She signed thousands of personal checks, for example; but she worked as a VP of a small bank - can you imagine that she didn't have to sign a hundred papers per day at work?