In a failed smear-job against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, instigators doctored fraudulent sexual harassment claims falsely attributed to the Democrat senator’s former female staffer.

Schumer has gone to law enforcement over the matter after Axios — who first reported the forged allegations — brought the documents to the lawmaker’s office for comment.

“The document is a forged document and every allegation is false. We have turned it over to the Capitol Police and asked them to investigate and pursue criminal charges because it is clear the law has been broken,” said Schumer’s communications director Matt House.

Adding, “We believe the individual responsible for forging the document should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to prevent other malicious actors from doing the same.”

Additionally, the female staffer who is said to have filed the complaints against Schumer spoke to Axios and confirmed to the outlet that she was not, in any way, behind the charges. She even said the instigators forged her signature in an attempt to add credit to their libelous files, which they pitched to several media organizations before being discovered as frauds.

The fake allegations were listed as taking place in late 2011 — though, Schumer’s office clarified that the senator was in New York and France during the two listed incidents that were said to have occurred in Washington, D.C. The 13-page file also does not have a lawyer named on it, which Axios’ Mike Allen pointed to as “one of the many red flags” that prove the document is a fake.

Given conservative media provocateur and notorious liar James O’Keefe’s recent attempts at creating false allegations to dupe the mainstream media, this attempt at Schumer could be reflective of a trend as disdain for news organizations continues to rise.

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