Your side comment was fascinating.  It sounds as if a County  public agency is accepting fraudulent documents, taking possession thereof, and recording them at taxpayers expense in another set of books that are not publically available?

Could you elucidate more on this topic? 

What sort of books and why?  How would you even know to access or search them for a claim?  If they are public records, then they should be subject to your states' public records act to be reviewed.  The County, in accepting these, it would seem that the legally bonded "Guardian of Records" (or the equivalent legal position in your State) could be  liable in a variety of ways for the content of such records if they are not authorized by law.  It seems to raise questions of whether such agency would be acting complicitously with fraud.   Has anyone raised such issues before?