fall guy 
noun informal, chiefly North American
A scapegoat: he contends that he is innocent, that he was set up as a fall guy...
- And then they picked this one auditor who could be their fall guy.
- She's obviously being set up to be the fall guy and she's it.
- Whether or not the person who actually takes the blame is the real culprit or a fall guy, we may never know.
- non-recognition
- non-recoil
- non-recourse
- nonrecurring
- non-reducible
- non-reducing
- non-reduction
- non-referential
- nonrefillable
- non-reflexive
- non-refoulement
- non-refundable
- non-regent
- non-regular
- non-regulation
- non-relational
- non-relative
- non-relativistic
- non-relativistically
- non-religious
- non-remission
- non-remittance
- non-renewable
- non-representational
- non-residence