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    The Crédit Mobilier scandal (French pronunciation: [kʁedi mɔbilje]) was a two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and...
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    Territory. He created the financial structure that led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal. He was interested in hotels in the Adirondacks and once owned...
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    controlled Crédit Mobilier was also a congressman, Oakes Ames of Massachusetts. He offered some of his colleagues the opportunity to buy Crédit Mobilier stock...
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    Henry Wilson. An 1872–73 congressional investigation into the Crédit Mobilier scandal identified Colfax as one of several federal government officials...
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    somewhat damaged late in his Senate career by his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Wilson was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, on February 16,...
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    including Logan were possibly involved with the scandal. Logan explained that he rejected The Credit Mobilier official Oakes Ames first offer, but a few months...
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    include the Whiskey Ring, the Star Route scandal, and the trader post scandal. The Crédit Mobilier scandal also became public information at this time...
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    of bedlam.". An 1873 investigation connected Kelley to the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal. The Congressional committee that reviewed the issue suggested...
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    Uncle Sam is shown directing U.S. Senators implicated in the Crédit Mobilier Scandal to commit "Hari-Kari", clearly showing that by that time the general...
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    to Seymour's biographer, Stewart Mitchell, the Republican Party claimed credit for saving the Union and was bound, bent, and determined to continue to...
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