Well he is certainly trying hard to be like him.
Tweed’s crimes finally caught up with him. He died in jail in 1878.
Cuomo had better pray he doesn’t end up like him.
Civil War General Francis Channing Barlow (Gettysburg - Barlow’s Knoll), who served as Attorney General of New York State, prosecuted the Tweed Ring. Barlow’s second wife was Ellen Shaw, sister of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Movie “Glory”). Several years ago, I visited the Walnut Street Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts with a friend. We had to crawl over the fence to get into it. I came across General Barlow’s tomb. I hadn’t known he was buried there. The cemetery was in disrepair, and I wrote about it to historian Brian Pohanka (now deceased), who was a great fan of General Barlow’s. He made sure the cemetery, and General Barlow’s tomb was cleared of debris and cleaned up.