Making the career of Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow, for 10 points, name this corrupt effort to steal back taxes on liquor and distilling which occurred in the Grant administration.
Editor of the St. Louis Democrat Myron Colony was one of the secret investigators of this event. Leading to the indictment of 260 men, including IRS agents like John Joyce, the most famous indictee was former General Orville Babcock, at the time serving as Personal Secretary to the President, who later shielded him from prosecution. Making the career of Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow, for 10 points, name this corrupt effort to steal back taxes on liquor and distilling which occurred in the Grant administration.
Editor of the St. Louis Democrat Myron Colony was one of the secret investigators of this event.
{Whiskey Ring} Scandal