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William M. Tweed. William Magear "Boss" Tweed[note 1] (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878) was an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party 's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the ...
Boss Tweed (born April 3, 1823, New York, New York, U.S.—died April 12, 1878, New York) was an American politician who, with his “Tweed ring” cronies, systematically plundered New York City of sums estimated at between $30 million and $200 million.
Tweed's Ring essentially controlled New York City until 1870, using embezzlement, bribery, and kickbacks to siphon massive chunks of New York's budget into their own pockets — anywhere from $40 million to $200 million (or $1.5 billion to $9 billion in 2009 dollars).
9 lut 2010 · 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.
2 sty 2015 · In full force now, the Tweed ring began to financially drain the city of New York through faked leases, false vouchers, extravagantly padded bills and various other schemes set up and...
William Magear “Boss” Tweed was a nineteenth century New York politican known for his greed and exploitation. The New York Times and Harper's Weekly exposed the rampant corruption of Boss Tweed and his "Tweed Ring" through stories of the various frauds and the political cartoons of Thomas Nast.
The collapse of the Tweed Ring came in 1871 as the New York Times published a series of scathing stories on huge cost overruns in the courthouse construction. Tweed was arrested in...
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