Article. Date: February 3, 1956; Author: Fulton Lewis and Alfred Friendly; Published for/in: Extract from Broadcast; Content: "In New York, Paul Hughes, the man who posed as an investigator for the McCarthy Committee and sold phony information and documents to a group of fanatical McCarthy haters for a total of almost 12 thousand dollars, was acquitted by a Federal Court jury last night, and it has been announced that no further prosecution against him will be attempted."