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UPDATE: Exclusive details of the criminal past of Leslie McCrae Dowless, the man at the center of the North Carolina election scandal.

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2. On Aug 22, 1990, a 24-year-old employee of McCrae Dowless’ auto sales business, Charles Simmons Jr., died in a single car accident. After Simmons’ death, McCrae Dowless forged Simmons’ signature on a life insurance policy and backdated it to August 20. popular.info/p/man-at-cente…
3. McCrae Dowless paid one month of premiums, which was $38.19. He then submitted a claim. On November 30, 1990, he received a check for $163,541.92. He pleaded guilty to felony fraud on May 21, 1992. popular.info/p/man-at-cente…
4. McCrae Dowless received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation but he violated his parole. His probation was revoked and he served about 6 months in jail for his crime in 1995. popular.info/p/man-at-cente…
5. McCrae Dowless also has several misdemeanor convictions for writing bad checks and failing to pay taxes.

All of this is public record and was available to Republican Mark Harris before he hired Dowless to run his absentee ballot operation.

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