{"id":1741322,"date":"2022-11-16T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741322"},"modified":"2022-11-16T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T19:48:22","slug":"pennsylvania-ag-josh-shapiro-charges-his-own-former-campaign-consultant-with-wide-scale-voter-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-ag-josh-shapiro-charges-his-own-former-campaign-consultant-with-wide-scale-voter-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro Charges His Own Former Campaign Consultant with \u2018Wide Scale\u2019 Voter Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-ag-josh-shapiro-charges-his-own-former-campaign-consultant-with-wide-scale-voter-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Pennsylvania&#8217;s governor-elect rose to prominence by downplaying Republican fears of voter fraud<\/p>\n<p>    Attorney General of Pennsylvania Joshua Shapiro\/ Facebook   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 November 16, 2022 2:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania governor-elect Josh Shapiro, who rose to prominence by downplaying Republican claims of voter fraud, charged one of his former campaign consultants on Wednesday with &#8220;wide scale&#8221; forgery of voter ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro, in his capacity as Pennsylvania attorney general, alleges that Philadelphia political consultant Rasheen Crews duplicated more than 1,000 signatures on petitions to add his clients to Democratic primary ballots for Philadelphia city elections in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By soliciting and organizing the wide scale forgery of signatures, the defendant undermined the democratic process and Philadelphians\u2019 right to a free and fair election,&#8221; Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.gov\/taking-action\/ag-shapiro-announces-charges-against-philadelphia-man-for-orchestrating-the-forgery-of-signatures-on-election-nomination-petitions-in-municipal-primary-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement announcing the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the indictment just a week after the gubernatorial election could raise questions for Shapiro, who was a strident critic of Republicans who cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.attorneygeneral.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-16-Rasheen-Crews-CC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an arrest affidavit<\/a>, Shapiro\u2019s office opened an investigation into Crews in September 2019. It is unclear why it took three years to bring charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Crews has consulted for dozens of state and local candidates over the years, campaign finance disclosures show. Shapiro\u2019s attorney general campaign paid Crews $2,000 in 2016, according to the Pennsylvania campaign finance database.<\/p>\n<p>Crews\u2019s clients denied knowledge of the forgery scheme, according to the affidavit. Crews allegedly hired individuals to forge signatures to get his clients placed on Democratic primary ballots for municipal elections in Philadelphia. He had the ballot petitions notarized and then filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State.<\/p>\n<p>James Berardinelli, who hired Crews to obtain signatures for a judicial campaign, told Shapiro\u2019s office he was unaware that Crews had included forged signatures on his ballot petition.<\/p>\n<p>At the federal level, Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Pa.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?data_type=processed&#038;recipient_name=crews+consulting&#038;recipient_name=rasheen+crews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid<\/a> Crews $19,075 for a variety of services since 2016. The campaign paid Crews $800 in May to serve as a poll worker, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Evans hired Crews for grassroots organizing, &#8220;voter contact,&#8221; and &#8220;petitions&#8221; in the 2016 and 2018 cycles. Evans was elected in a special election in 2016 to replace former Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), who resigned from Congress in June 2016 after his conviction on fraud and racketeering charges.<\/p>\n<p>The International Brotherhood of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania governor-elect Josh Shapiro, who rose to prominence by downplaying Republican claims of voter fraud, charged one of his former campaign consultants on Wednesday with &#8220;wide scale&#8221; forgery of voter ballots.<br \/>\nThe post Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro Charges His Own Former Campaign Consultant with \u2018Wide Scale\u2019 Voter Fraud appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1741325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}