Credit Mobilier

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-18-17
  

  Buying ‘friends in this Congress’: The smoking gun that triggered a political scandal

  by Robert Mitchell

  It was called the Credit Mobilier scandal and it involved a congressman who went on to be president:  James Garfield. 

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• 1-10-16
  

  Why Didn’t the Heirs of a Credit Mobilier Swindler Burn His Incriminating Papers?

  by Sheila Myers

  That’s the mystery this writer wanted to understand.