[Darksheare]

Odd part about the Lehman signature, they exactly match.
No-one can sign their name the same way every time.

That smells in and of itself.

[Riley]

Odd part about the Lehman signature, they exactly match. No-one can sign their name the same way every time.

Disagree. It is very likely done from a stamp. That part is legit. I have lots of service documents from my time in that are so stamped. The SECNAV would do nothing all day but sign promotion warrants for petty officers and awards paperwork, if it weren't done that way.

[Truth29]

Don't put too much into the fact that the signatures are identical. A lot of government agencies used to use (and may still use) a device called an autopen or sigmac. This machine actually signs each document with a type of pen and is legally binding. It is a method to give an original looking signature rather than a stamp, but can be used for mass production of documents, such as certificates or letters to constituents.

[MediaMole]

The signatures are autopens. Almost all high-ranking govt. officials have autopens to sign correspondence and ceremonial documents.

It isn't too hard to determine if a signature is an autopen. First, they will match exactly. Second, the pen stops at the end of each word, so there is a little dot at the end of each part of the name instead of trailing away as the pen is lifted while moving as a person would do.

[capitan_refugio]

"Odd part about the Lehman signature, they exactly match."

Not really. Lehman's office used a signature stamp. Lehman probably never even saw the document.

[rwfromkansas]

It's an autopen or stamp signature.

Nothing fraudulent about that.

Kerry did take a lot of time to pretty up his service though.