Posted on 11/23/2016 8:59:55 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
William Magear “Boss” Tweed, leader of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s, is delivered to authorities in New York City after his capture in Spain.
Tweed became a powerful figure in Tammany Hall–New York City’s Democratic political machine–in the late 1850s. By the mid 1860s, he had risen to the top position in the organization and formed the “Tweed Ring,” which openly bought votes, encouraged judicial corruption, extracted millions from city contracts, and dominated New York City politics. The Tweed Ring reached its peak of fraudulence in 1871 with the remodeling of the City Court House, a blatant embezzlement of city funds that was exposed by The New York Times. Tweed and his flunkies hoped the criticism would blow over, but thanks to the efforts of opponents such as Harper’s Weekly political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who conducted a crusade against Tweed, virtually every Tammany Hall member was swept from power in the elections of November 1871.
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Lock her up.
Hopefully she will have the same fate as Tweed.
Funny thing is he was recognized in Spain because of the cartoons of Thomas Nast who drew him to a tee.
That was back in the days when the New York Times actually investigated criminality rather than apologizing for it.
What do you know?
At one time Democrats were ruthlessly and pervasively corrupt.
The things one learns from that new-fangled contraption called history.
That’s why the union controlled public schools only teach redacted history now.
“....exposed by The New York Times”.
HA! You do not see that anymore. They cover up the crimes now from the democrat party and boss clinton tweed.
From wiki: They were able to force an examination of the city’s books, but the blue-ribbon commission of six businessmen appointed by Mayor A. Oakey Hall, a Tammany man, which included John Jacob Astor III, banker Moses Taylor and others who benefited from Tammany’s actions, found that the books had been “faithfully kept”, letting the air out of the effort to dethrone Tweed.[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed
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