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The Tweed ring scandal was started in 1870 new york Boss tweed employed bribery, graft and fraud elections to milk the metropolis of as much as 200 million. New york times found damming evidence and Published it in 1871 Thomas Nast made Cartoons incriminating Tweed mercilessly. Tweed was tride and sent to jail to die behind bars
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TaigaThe Tweed Ring scandal involved William Tweed. He and his associates used embezzlement and bribery to steal the New York City budget.
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A scandal that was not associated with the administration of President Grant was the?
Tweed ring (new york city, mostly) Teapot Dome (Harding cabinet)
Heavyweight new york political boss whose widespread fraud landed him in jail in 1871?
Boss Tweed
Was Lincoln Steffans a scalawag?
Lincoln Joseph Steffens was a reporter who wrote for the New York Evening Post. He wrote about Boss Tweed, the Mexican Revolution, and the Soviet Revolution. He was called a muckracker.
Who was the head of Tammany Hall?
William Marcy Tweed
What did Grant have to do with the Tweed Ring?
It was just a big deal in his time... as far as I know, some one could see this and say I don't know what I'm talking about. That's not an invitation to do so!
