dec 31, 1865 - Credit Mobilier
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The Credit Mobilier Scandal is one of the first post civil war scandal. During this time few men were contracted by the railraod and a few politicians of the age swooped in to reap the profits as well as the lands grants given to the central Pacific by the U.S. goverment.
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