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Forgery of official documents is a felony offense.
Cite please. See #563 above.

USC Title 18 Part 1 Chap. 25:
Section 494. Contractors' bonds, bids, and public records

Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States; or
Whoever utters or publishes as true or possesses with intent to utter or publish as true, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or
Whoever transmits to, or presents at any office or to any officer of the United States, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Here's my (uneducated non-lawyer) take:

Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any ... public record, ... or other writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States, or;

The Constitution starts and plainly states "We, the People of the United States ..." and therefor the laws as placed are directly pertinent to the People. These frauds were perpetrated against the People of the United States and their Elected and Appointed representatives, the result of which would be the usurpation of the Presidential Electoral process as delineated in that Constitution. I submit that the Vote you or I cast is worth much more than any banknote in the stead of freedom, and should be held as such.

(Got to cut and run -- lunch is over.)

The short answer is that if anybody was defrauded, it was CBS, if they paid for the forgeries.

There is a type of fraud known as journalistic (or journalism) fraud. That type of fraud is not criminal. The policing of journalism fraud is by the so-called profession of journalism, via hiring and firing.

Mike Barnicle is till working in journalism. So is Peter Arnett. So is Doris Kearns Goodwin. In other words, journalistic integrity is a flippin' joke, and the sooner the public wakes up to that, the better.