You really think with the infinite resources available to the gov that they couldn’t figure out who shot a CEO on a busy NYC street in broad daylight?
You really think that the infinite (human) resources in the gov care about putting the effort to find the actual shooter, when they can just manipulate all media and make the scapegoat feel real?
When you have a hammer in hand, everything looks like a nail.
When selling a lie is the skill an org has put the most XP in, that's what they seek to do first.
Also, I see some group of competitors finding out that the guy had some plan to get on top and decided to off him first.