Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prune. Through his lawyer, Irving late last week admitted in the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City that his baroquely detailed scenario was a fraud. Irving's lawyer, Maurice R. Nessen, had hurried to the Federal Courthouse for the conference after Richard Suskind, a writer and researcher who had worked with Irving on the manuscript, refused to back Irving's story. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, Suskind said he was willing to testify that contrary to his earlier affidavit, he had never seen Hughes; Hughes had never offered him that organic prune...
Irving and Nessen tried to hammer out their own deal with the U.S. Attorney. They promised to cooperate provided the prosecutors could per suade the Swiss government to soften passport-forgery and bank-fraud charges against Irving's wife Edith. No one was quite certain whether Irving was acting out of chivalry or more self-serving motives. It was possible, some investigators said, that Irving hoped to ease Edith's legal burdens before she broke down and told her own side of the story, partly in anger over her husband's now famous affair with Danish Singer...
Swiss Sanctum. Irving was willing to accept a prison term for fraud and perjury, and give his account of the entire scheme. The prosecutors were amenable to that, since if Irving took the Fifth Amendment, it might be difficult to track down the other conspirators. Morvillo and Tigue immediately flew to Zurich, where they tried to induce the Swiss to reduce their charges against Edith. They received a cool reception. For weeks Zurich Prosecutor Peter Veleff had been horrified by the publicity surrounding the case and by the lack of cooperation from U.S. legal authorities. The spectacle of Clifford...
Oddly enough, it was the earlier Osborn certification of Hughes' handwriting that had kept Phelan from suspecting that his manuscript might be the source of Irving's fraud. "Up until about ten days ago," he recalled last week, "I still thought the Irving manuscript was authentic." What triggered Phelan's realization and brought him to TIME'S McCulloch was the leaked story about a Hughes aide who talked with Howard from Hedda Hopper's closet. It was Irving's story -straight from Phelan's work...
...York, Stephen Mindell, head of the state Consumer Protection and Fraud Division, announced yesterday that the state served a subpoena Friday against Minuteman Research, a termpaper firm in Queens which admits possession of approximately half of the Harvard papers stolen over intersession...