This event led Cotton Exchange secretary Myron Colony to secretly work for the Treasury Secretary.
This event led Cotton Exchange secretary Myron Colony to secretly work for the Treasury Secretary. Some of its central figures were revenue agent John Joyce and Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, who eventually served jail time after being prosecuted by James Broadhead. Broadhead replaced John Brooks Henderson as the  special prosecutor for this scandal. Centered in St. Louis, it pitted Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow against the President's private secretary Orville Babcock. Name this scandal in the Grant administration, uncovered by  comparing shipping and tax records to the records of rectifiers and distillers of a certain alcoholic beverage.
This event led Cotton Exchange secretary Myron Colony to secretly work for the Treasury Secretary.
Whiskey Ring