frame-up

That corruption, says Stafford Smith, provided the opportunity for a “frame-up of epic proportions.”

He went on reading the papers and presently exclaimed: Its a frame-up.

I suppose the Duke has been communicating with them through underground channels and instructing them in regard to this frame-up.

Just as like as not Bill Grayson has fixed a frame-up on me to get me in bad with the union.