Exposing a crime involving judicial Fraud in Missouri

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My name is Anne Ojeda. I’m a nurse anesthetist and single mother from St. Louis County, Missouri. My two teenage sons and I are victims of an ongoing civil rights crime involving judicial fraud and domestic abuse in St. Louis County Courts. It involves Associate Circuit Judge Joseph L. Green (Div. 36) and a group of St. Louis legal professionals, stemming from my divorce from attorney Richard “Rick” A. Voytas.

• This crime is not complicated. That’s because what has taken place is not a matter of how the law was applied in a legal proceeding. It is about a judge fabricating a case record by inserting material facts that did not exist in order to present his actions as falling within the scope of his judicial duties or “jurisdiction.” Judicial immunity does not extend to actions taken outside a judge’s jurisdiction. That is why the fabricated material facts they relied upon were critical. Examples of the fabricated facts include what took place during hearings, whether certain hearings took place at all, whether a “consent judgment” was signed by the parties, and what prior court orders and judgments were entered in other divisions. 

• Disproving the fraud is not challenging. It requires comparison between what actually occurred and what was later written or filed in the record. When a crime like this is committed by officers of the court with the kind of access and control of legal records required to fabricate them, they are relying on the public’s trust in the inherent legitimacy those kinds of records are supposed to have. 

• The crime originated in my divorce from St. Louis County Attorney Richard “Rick” A. Voytas. The case is filed under seal at what is known as a ‘Level 5’ security designation in Missouri’s courts. This has allowed the perpetrators to bury evidence of their crime from public view. What makes this crime particularly heinous is that Mr. Voytas and Judge Green later weaponized my first husband and known domestic abuser, Victor A. Ojeda, to further their crime. Mr. Ojeda has a well-documented history of violating court orders intended to prevent his harassment of my sons and me. That vulnerability later became a critical part of this crime.

• By April 2022, I began formally reporting the obstruction of my access to the case file and evidence of judicial fraud. I filed motions in two St. Louis County administrative divisions. Within months of those complaints, Judge Green was assigned to preside over a second lawsuit involving me—filed by my first husband and domestic abuser, Victor A. Ojeda. Mr. Ojeda lost custody of our sons in 2018 and had a documented history of violating court orders intended to prevent his ongoing harassment of my sons and I. Those violations were known to Judge Green. The timing was not coincidental.

• At the same time I was exposing criminal misconduct in one case, Judge Green was given authority over a second case involving the orders protecting my sons and I from a known domestic abuser who had been restricted from any contact with us as the result of the court's prior orders and judgments. This created a path for Judge Green to double down by fabricating two records simultaneously—one hidden and one public. It ensured that both the evidence he was committing fraud, and the fact that he was being accused of it, remained concealed. At the same time, the public-facing record could be used to weaponize the orders and judgments protecting my sons and I from Mr. Ojeda’s harassment. It also became a means of undermining our credibility in a way that would deter anyone from believing us if we spoke about what was happening.

•  Once Judge Green began issuing orders in both cases he was assigned to, the situation escalated quickly. A flood of filings and orders followed, each building on the last until a detailed court record was constructed that contradicted factual reality. Because these claims appeared in court orders signed by a judge, they carried enormous authority. 

• The escalation began in my divorce from Attorney Rick Voytas. When I refused to consent to the terms they wanted me to agree to, they claimed I had signed a consent judgment that does not exist. That false premise was then used to assert jurisdiction to evict my sons and me from a home I owned with Mr. Voytas. On July 26, 2023, Judge Green entered an order evicting us based on that claim. When I pointed out the discrepancy, the response was not correction— it was escalation, including threats, coercion, and attempts to silence me.

• At the same time our lives were being destabilized in my sealed divorce, the second case involving my known domestic abuser, Victor A. Ojeda, became a means of retaliation. Judge Green created the appearance that he was presiding over a legitimate custody matter, when in reality the underlying record showed the opposite.

• My sons and I have not had contact of any kind with Mr. Ojeda in years. That absence of contact was not due to noncompliance—it was the result of standing court orders and judgments. The accurate record, which Judge Green attempted to bury beneath a fabricated one, shows that history clearly. Click below to review the accurate underlying court records Judge Green tried to conceal.

• Despite that established history, Judge Green introduced a fabricated narrative—claiming I was in violation of court orders. Once that false premise was inserted, every subsequent motion, order, and judgment was built upon it.

• That record falsely portrays my sons and me as participating in ongoing contact, custody proceedings, and even therapy with Mr. Ojeda and a counselor named Camille Reinhold that we have never met. It includes psychological findings and diagnoses that could never have been made without a court order, contact, and/or subpoenaed records. 

• The record functions as a smear campaign, designed to discredit both me and my sons to further shield the perpetrators from the threat of criminal accountability.

• I had no other choice but to go public with the evidence of this crime for our safety. Transparency is the only protection that exists when the system itself is used to conceal the truth. When legal professionals are expected to police themselves, conflicts of interest deter accountability, which leaves the system vulnerable to this kind of criminal corruption.