This situation resulted in the indictments of over 200 people, and Thomas Nast commented on it with a picture of Uncle Sam looking at some wooden objects while a quotation from the man who broke it looms overhead.
This situation resulted in the indictments of over 200 people, and Thomas Nast commented on it with a picture of Uncle Sam looking at some wooden objects while a quotation from the man who broke it looms overhead. That man, secretary of the treasury Benjamin Bristow, made the discovery because he found that the government was missing a substantial portion of the revenue it was due. In fact, some of that money was being diverted to President Grant's reelection fund, allegedly at the direction of Grant's private secretary, Orville Babcock. However, Babcock was acquitted of diverting the IRS's revenue from spirit taxes. Name this scandal in the Grant administration concerning a tax on alcoholic beverage distill- ers.
This situation resulted in the indictments of over 200 people, and Thomas Nast commented on it with a picture of Uncle Sam looking at some wooden objects while a quotation from the man who broke it looms overhead.
Whiskey Ring scandal (accept "affair" or other reasonable equivalents for "scandal")