The court's conclusion that evidence against Mr Hakamata was fabricated raises troubling questions.

That’s followed by food manufacturing, with 175,000 jobs; and fabricated metal companies, which employ some 120,000 workers who forge, stamp and make products such as cutlery, hand tools, boilers and springs.

“I just came up with a fabricated story so they would leave me alone,” she said.

As part of the plea deal with Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, California resident Alexander Smirnov will admit he fabricated the story that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.

That would be a more appropriate description of the majority report, which advances no “facts” but rests on fabricated and tendentious assumptions.