John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring

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John McDonald and the Whiskey Ring is written by Edward S. Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1683939255 (ISBN 10) and 9781683939252 (ISBN 13).

The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of internal revenue he responded, “I was aware that he was not an educated man, but he was a man that had seen a great deal of the world and of people, and I would not call him ignorant exactly, he was illiterate.” McDonald organized and ran the Whiskey Ring but he always credited Grant with the initiation of the Ring declaring that the president “actually stood god-father at its christening.” The demise of the Ring rivals anything that the real or fictional Elliot Ness and his “Untouchables” ever accomplished during the prohibition era in America.