Subject: JFK Document Forger Convicted Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 17:09:40 GMT From: dstager@email.com (David Stager) Organization: Thought Control Research Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk Posted at 11:48 a.m. PDT Friday, April 30, 1999 Man convicted of selling forged JFK documents NEW YORK (AP) -- The son of a prominent lawyer was found guilty today of selling forged documents claiming President Kennedy paid hush money to keep secret an affair with Marilyn Monroe. Lawrence X. Cusack III, 48, of Fairfield, Conn., who made a fortune selling hundreds of Kennedy-linked documents he claimed came from his late father, was convicted on 13 mail and wire fraud charges. When Judge Denise Cote announced the guilty verdict on each charge, Cusack's jaw dropped. He stared, eyes narrowed, at the jurors as Cote asked each one, ``Does that represent your verdict?'' Then he shook his head repeatedly and dropped his face into his hands; his wife, sitting behind him, dropped her head onto the wooden railing. At his sentencing in July, Cusack faces up to five years in prison on each of the 13 fraud counts, and a maximum $250,000 fine on each count. The case caused a furor in 1997 after Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh deleted material based on the documents from his book, ``The Dark Side of Camelot,'' after the authenticity of the papers was questioned. According to the papers, Kennedy had set up a trust for Miss Monroe's mother to buy her daughter's silence about the alleged affair between the president and the actress. Cusack produced letters that he said were written between his late father, who helped handle the Monroe estate, and the slain president. The documents appeared to prove rumors about Kennedy and Miss Monroe, the Mafia and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Prosecutors said Cusack swindled investors out of millions by selling phony letters bearing Kennedy's forged signature. The government argued that there was ample proof of the forgery: The typeface used in many of the letters came from a typewriter that was not manufactured until the 1970s. Contents of those papers are based on drafts contained in a notebook Cusack had used. Cusack ``told lie after lie after lie to make people believe the documents were real,'' prosecutor Peter Neiman said in closing arguments earlier this week. But defense attorney Robert Katzberg said that while a handwriting expert concluded the president's handwriting had been simulated or traced, it could not be proved his client did it.