The New York Penal Law criminalizes certain contraband based solely on what it is irrespective of your intent to use it illegally. Both forgery and counterfeiting are crimes involving fraud.Forgery is the crime of creating a false written document or object with the intent to defraud. In Medieval England, counterfeiting royal seals would be treated as treason. So you would get drawn, hanged and quartered. Forgery, deceive or injure another, he falsely makes, completes or alters a written instrument which is or purports to be. The Working Families Party is leading the fight for social, racial, and economic justice in New York state. According to the Pennsylvania statutes, forgery is the act of reproducing any document, signature, banking note, or a work of art. In the simplest of terms, forgery is altering or making a false document with intent to deceive another. More evidence has emerged that the will for Tiger King's Don Lewis, a Florida multimillionaire who disappeared in 1997, may have been forged.