Author : Edward S. Cooper
Release : 2016-10-28
Genre : History
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John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring write by Edward S. Cooper. This book was released on 2016-10-28. John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.