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and a lot of it went into the pockets of Treasury Department officials
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who were themselves supposed to be collecting the tax
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The estimate is that between forty and fifty million dollars
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was grafted in this particular scandal
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The scandal broke in 1875
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There were about 150 people indicted in the liquor business,
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about eighty-five people indicted in the federal government
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There were 110 convictions,
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although nobody served terribly long in any prison
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And thirdly, there's this thing called Crédit Mobilier
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This was the company that was first chartered in 1859 as part of—
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it was the finance company for the Pennsylvania,