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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...
...members of the U.S. Attorney's office, Robert Morvillo and John Tigue Jr., consented to talk to Swiss authorities about leniency. But first Morvillo wanted to know one thing: did Irving intend to persist in his story that he had met with Hughes? Nessen stepped out into the hall to talk to Irving. When he returned, he said: "You won't have to call Hughes. There were no meetings with Hughes." "All right," said Morvillo, "but Irving should know that we'll break his balls before the grand jury if he says he met with Hughes...
Better Writing. In the midst of the Swiss negotiations, Irving's attention was diverted. Late on the night of his meeting at the U.S. Attorney's office, Irving received a telephone call at Nessen's office from TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch. "I want to level with you," McCulloch said. "We've got the Phelan manuscript on the way to New York. Phelan's flying here with it, and we're going to lay it down alongside your manuscript in the morning and read them together...
Late last week Irving hired a new lawyer, Maurice Nessen, who has wide experience in criminal cases. Together, they spent the weekend-part of it in a northern Connecticut house-preparing their case. Early this week Irving was to appear before a New York County grand jury investigating possible charges of perjury and obtaining money (from McGraw-Hill) under false pretenses. Then Irving would have to face a federal grand jury looking into possible additional charges of mail fraud...