put-up job
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“This is not quite a put-up job, but nonetheless has been cobbled together so that Ghislaine is made to face the charges that Epstein never faced,’’ Ian Maxwell said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
That, and the fact that their prosecution was clearly a put-up job.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013
Inevitably, some are saying that it is a put-up job, a PR stunt, but if so, someone should turf Dame Judi off whatever movie she's working on and hire Sarah Murdoch immediately instead.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2010
It had all the feel of a put-up job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thinks that business with Mgoro was a put-up job, too.
From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Whitney, Elliott
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