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...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 and Edith blithely...
...Swiss would consider only one concession: if the Irvings would replace the $650,000 that Edith/Helga has cached in Zurich banks, then the Swiss government might consider accepting a guilty plea, upon which she could-possibly-receive a suspended sentence. For the Irvings, that amounted to no deal at all; they are believed to have spent about $100,000 of the money, and authorities have been unable to account for another...
...have needed money to pay off loan sharks of the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino. Meantime the Internal Revenue Service signed tax liens against all of Irving's 1971 earnings, including the $650,000 in publisher's advances to "H.R. Hughes" that the Irvings had banked in Zurich. Swiss officials issued warrants for the Irvings' arrest...
...money question has been substantially solved. Irving admits that his wife Edith, posing as a woman named Helga R. Hughes, opened an account at the Swiss Credit Bank in Zurich, deposited the McGraw-Hill checks made out to H.R. Hughes and then withdrew the money and salted it away in several other Zurich banks. Irving claims that he made the arrangements at Hughes' request. Last week, however, a few more details of those transactions came to light...
...last week, the original $650,000 was down to $450,000, which had been given to a second Zurich bank to invest in stocks. It is said that Irving is now frantically trying to raise $200,000 in order to replace the money that has been spent, should he be required to refund it to McGraw-Hill. The fact that the money remains in the Irvings' accounts is one of the best arguments against the theory that an impostor posing as Hughes duped Irving; presumably such an impostor would long since have absconded with the money...