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John Mcdonald and the Whiskey Ring : From Thug to Grant's Inner Circle

By Edward S. Cooper

Book information

Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781683930136, 9781683930129
LCC
E664.M137C66 2017
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1189603 bytes)
Pages
209\0
Time added
2023-08-17 22:43:21
1822-1885--Friends and associates. ; Swindlers and1832-1912. ; GrantJohnMcDonaldUlysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)

Description

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 demise of the Ring rivals anything that the real or fictional Elliot Ness and his "Untouchables" ever accomplished during the prohibition era in America.

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