John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring
From Thug to Grant's Inner Circle
The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of internal revenue he responded, I was aware that he was not an educated man, but he was a man that had seen a great deal of the world and of people, and I would not call him ignorant exactly, he was illiterate. McDonald organized and ran the Whiskey Ring but he always credited Grant with the initiation of the Ring declaring that the president actually stood god-father at its christening. The demis…
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- ISBN: 978-1-68393-013-6
- EAN: 9781683930136
- Produktnummer: 22614067
- Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'190 KB
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By Edward S. Cooper
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