Former McKinney Mayor George Fuller claims that the McKinney Police Department referred a criminal complaint involving alleged perjury in the city’s recall petition process to the Texas Rangers.
The allegations concern whether individuals who signed sworn circulator statements actually collected or witnessed the signatures associated with those statements.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, organizers seeking a recall election in McKinney submitted petition signatures to the city in September, advancing the effort into the verification process.
Fuller announced the alleged criminal complaint in a Facebook post on October 15.
“A formal criminal complaint and supporting evidence were submitted to the McKinney Police Department, which, after reviewing the allegations, referred the matter to the Texas Rangers for further review and investigation into suspected criminal perjury, aggravated perjury, and conspiracy to commit perjury involving the McKinney recall petitions,” Fuller posted, in part.
Fuller also raised concerns about the possibility of coordinated misconduct involving multiple petition circulators.
“More troubling is the apparent repetition of this conduct involving multiple individuals, raising serious questions about potential criminal conspiracy and whether an organized process existed in which one person gathered signatures while another knowingly executed a false sworn affidavit.
“Collin County Citizens for Integrity (CCCI), led by Paul Chabot, actively recruited signature gatherers, including volunteers and potential paid workers. The complaint calls for investigators to determine who organized, directed, facilitated, or knowingly participated in any coordinated effort to falsify sworn petition documents, including what role, if any, Chabot or CCCI played beyond recruitment.”
The allegations do not establish that anyone falsified a sworn statement or committed a crime. Fuller did not identify a confirmed criminal charge in the statements provided to The Dallas Express.
John Aselton, who led the recall campaign effort, pushed back against the allegations and said neither McKinney Police nor the Texas Rangers had contacted him.
“We’ve not received any communications from either McKinney PD or the Texas Rangers. Ultimately, we take the integrity of the process very seriously and will cooperate with any lawful review. We’re confident that the petitions and the process that we orchestrated to gather the signatures meets the threshold,” Aselton told The Dallas Express.
Aselton’s statement addresses whether the agencies contacted his group, but it does not independently establish whether police received or referred a complaint.
The Dallas Express reached out to the City of McKinney, Paul Chabot, George Fuller, and the McKinney Police Department for comment but did not receive a response.
As of publication, The Dallas Express had not independently confirmed Fuller’s claim that police referred the complaint to the Texas Rangers or that the Rangers opened a formal criminal investigation.
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