trumped-up charges.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.    From Dictionary.com. 

All were convicted on trumped-up criminal charges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help 'Independent Spirits'] Reference

This was a trumped-up affair, the work of my enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

This is a trumped-up charge against me; but I repeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference

Put to death on a trumped-up charge by his countrymen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

You said they ` re all trumped-up, they ` re all made up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2006] Reference

It's not just a trumped-up thing to benefit Big This or That.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Memo: Not Easy Being Green] Reference

How has some trumped-up Page 3 girl turned into a national icon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Price: 'People think I'm not normal'] Reference

"You are hoodwinking me with a trumped-up story; it is not true!".    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

Thus could he easily put me under custody on some trumped-up charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference

I had three dummies ready to run on and make a trumped-up accusation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference

He called it "a trumped-up coalition of the bribed and coerced states.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2004] Reference

They ` re trumped-up charges because they can ` t prove the primary case.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2005] Reference

A hero so big that all these trumped-up charges against you will be dropped?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Place on Earth] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Those sound like trumped-up charges just to hold him in custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2006] Reference

No trumped-up interest in one particular puppet will take the place of the drama itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

He heard voices talking and had no doubt that José was narrating some trumped-up story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference

PENNINGTON: I'm angry that they listen to these obviously trumped-up charges and go to this extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2006] Reference

In early 1949 he was arrested on trumped-up espionage charges and spent six years in solitary confinement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American At Mao's Side] Reference

STEVE GREENBERG, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, those sound like trumped-up charges just to hold them in custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2006] Reference

Barring one dreadfully trumped-up climactic scene, they've managed to avoid the usual asylum-movie cliches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blue Christmas] Reference

"I will never join a crew with that man; this is a trumped-up charge against me to satisfy private malice.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference

Arrested twice on trumped-up charges, threatened for contempt of court, he continued to fulfill his duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

After a show of trial, and trumped-up charges equally false, many more Jews and lepers were put to death in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

This age has weird similarities to our own: decadent Manhattan party spaces, a trumped-up war (with Mexico).    From Wordnik.com.  [He'll Take Manhattan] Reference

Part of the problem -- in addition to the trumped-up evidence against Iraq -- was his tone, many people said.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEHIND BUSH'S BACK] Reference

Long derided as a trumped-up boy band, they now return from a three-year hiatus steadfast in their blandness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maroon 5: Hands All Over] Reference

Of course the mysterious Coffey isn't a man at all, but a trumped-up symbol of the triumph of the human spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Executioner's Song] Reference

Many are trumped-up titles from self-proclaimed "institutes," mainly to give cover to high-pressure salespeople.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money Guide: How to Pick a Planner] Reference

We have on various trumped-up charges frequently slaughtered these people, and treated them in the most cruel manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January, 1888] Reference

After all, we're not talking here about trumped-up Iraqi WMD, but Al Qaeda terrorists who have already tried to kill us.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Know What You Did Last Summer] Reference

When finally "released" on bail, Shahin was promptly rearrested on newly trumped-up charges and still languishes in jail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld: Dubai: The Golden Mirage] Reference

The neutral was arrested upon some trumped-up charge to afford the authorities time to peruse the incriminating document.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

He also argued that he had earned credibility by having gone to prison on what he says are trumped-up charges of corruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assuming Benazir’s Mantle?] Reference

Everybody knew from the beginning that the prosecutor had it in for Amanda Knox, that the charges are pretty much trumped-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009] Reference

How improbable the trumped-up story that Grant could decoy from his home his bitterest enemy, especially at the midnight hour!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Hour Stories] Reference

English Warden, received this with an evasive and obviously trumped-up counter-charge of Kinmont Will having first broken truce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

What drama there is has less to do with Cal's burgeoning wrestling career than with the trumped-up friction between Mom and Mike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Legendary] Reference