John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring
Edward S. Cooper
ISBN: | 9781683930136 |
Publisher: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
Published: | 28 October, 2016 |
Format: | eBook |
John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring
Edward S. Cooper
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 Whiske
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