Meanings of bogus affair in English

Do you think I should be fool enough to be connected with a bogus affair?

You take my word for it, Mr. Hartington, that mortgage was just as much a bogus affair as the transfer.

As yet only certain army officers and Mr. Folsom knew of the startling discovery at the stockade-thatthe package was a bogus affair throughout.

But Mr Ross's cleverness had been too much for the rogues, and so he had changed the bogus affair for a genuine bullet of lead.