Current Pennsylvania Attorney General and Democrat Governor-elect Josh Shapiro arrested a former political consultant on Wednesday for allegedly forging ballot signatures in the state's 2019 Democratic primary races.
Rasheen Crews, a Democratic campaign consultant, was hired by multiple candidates to assist in gathering the required number of signatures for nomination petitions to run in the Democratic primary races in 2019.
According to an investigation launched by the office of the attorney general in September 2019, Crews was charged with the "wide scale forgery of signatures" on his clients' nomination petitions.
Shapiro, who has been critical of Republicans who have questioned election integrity and repeatedly denied voter fraud in Pennsylvania, said in a Wednesday statement that Crews' arrest is "an important reminder that interfering with the integrity of our elections is a serious crime."