Title: County Court House Description: The County Court House, still under construction after a three-year period (begun in 1868), a source of enormous pork-barreling payoffs for the corrupt Tweed Ring that inflated the costs of construction from $250,000 to more than $10 million ($3 million for plastering; almost $6 million for furniture), almost all of the proceeds going into the pockets of William Marcy Tweed (William Marcy Tweed, Jr.; 1823-1878), the corrupt leader of Tammany; fraud; Location: New York, New York, 1871 Keywords: kickbacks, payoffs, political corruption, pork-barreling Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2325 x 1480 (3.44 MPixels) (1.57) Print Size: 19.7 x 12.5 cm; 7.8 x 4.9 inches File Size: 9.86 MB (10,335,066 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095632 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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