Word: hoax
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Nationalists denounced the new policy as a "sellout," "hoax" and "one big zero" and threatened to make it a hot issue in the forthcoming Canadian election campaign. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau may well beat them because he has taken aim at an unpopular form of investment. Takeovers, mostly by U.S. firms, account for only 17% of the flow of foreign investment money into Canada, but they are especially noxious to many Canadians because they do nothing directly to expand production or jobs but only transfer ownership to outsiders. Whatever happens in the next election, it would be a grave mistake...
...guilty to federal charges of conspiracy. Then they walked a few blocks to the Criminal Courts Building, where they joined their collaborator, Researcher-Writer Richard Suskind. In State Supreme Court all three pleaded guilty to New York's charges of grand larceny and conspiracy in the $750,000 hoax. The Irvings and Suskind were released again on bond to await sentencing on June 16. Even the guilty pleas may not be the end of the tangled story; the federal grand jury in Manhattan continued last week to issue subpoenas in the case...
...hoax, which had once seemed a thing of dazzling design and theatrical performance, thumped toward an anticlimax. Last week Clifford Irving's elaborate production, the false autobiography of Howard Hughes, was replayed in lumpy, legalistic prose as two grand juries in New York indicted Irving and his wife Edith. One of the juries also indicted their burly collaborator, Writer-Researcher Richard Suskind...
...publish excerpts from the manuscript. Thus steeped in Hughesian lore, Suskind and Irving took turns pretending to be Howard Hughes, each alternately being interviewed by the other, to produce the question-and-answer dialogue form that the book eventually took. They apparently thought they could get by with the hoax because they suspected Hughes might either be dead or "not of sufficient mental or physical capacity to denounce" the book...
...Fabulous Hoax of Clifford Irving" gets my vote as the best adventure-mystery-suspense story of the year, but I do think your naming Irving the "Con Man of the Year" is a bit premature...