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and though nothing ever really happened to Gould or Fisk—
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setting in motion a history of who gets caught
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and who doesn't get caught in the Wall Street world—
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it was the first scandal of its kind
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that began to lead to cries of civil service reform,
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which became a big rallying cry in the 1870s
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Then there was the Whiskey Ring
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Man, this was old-fashioned, just unadulterated fraud
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This began in the early 1870s
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It first started in St. Louis
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It was really a cartel, what we in modern times
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would call the creation of a cartel