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How Tammany Hall Stole $200 Million From New York

Subscribe in 1-click:    / @historyhasconsequences   Between 1865 and 1871, William Tweed and his associates stole somewhere between $30 million and $200 million from New York City. A courthouse budgeted at $3 million cost $13 million. Thermometers: $7,500. Brooms: $5,000. Carpets for one building: $350,000. The system was brilliantly simple — contractors submitted bills at 2-3x actual costs, then returned 65% to Tweed's ring. This was the Tweed Ring scandal, and it reveals how systematic looting works when the government itself becomes the machine designed for extraction. This video reveals how Tammany Hall built a parallel structure that turned every city contract into theft — from plastering work billed at $2.8 million that should have cost $500,000, to printing contracts inflated by 1,200%. You'll see how Tweed controlled judges, contractors, newspapers, and entire immigrant communities through strategic services and fear: help people survive in exchange for votes, then use those votes to legalize theft. The machine worked because everyone who mattered got paid. The irony? When the New York Times published proof in July 1871, arrests didn't come for months. Most money was never recovered. The machine outlasted the reformers by 60 years. When modern corruption scandals break — no-bid contracts, cost overruns, political patronage — the debates echo arguments first made about Tweed's plastered courthouse in 1871. The theft was exposed. The thieves kept power. The building still stands today. 📑 CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 1:03 - Building the Machine 3:22 - The Theft System 4:47 - The Bills Were Absurd 7:44 - The Exposure 10:48 - Prosecution and Escape 13:54 - Why It Worked 📜 SOURCES & REFERENCES Kenneth D. Ackerman – "Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York" (2005) Seymour J. Mandelbaum – "Boss Tweed's New York" (1965) Leo Hershkowitz – "Tweed's New York: Another Look" (1977) New York Times – "The Secret Accounts" exposé series (July-October 1871) Harper's Weekly – Thomas Nast political cartoons (1869-1878) New York City Municipal Archives – Board of Supervisors Records (1865-1871) #bostweed #tammanyHall #gildedage #politicalcorruption #newyorkhistory #financialhistory #thomasnast #corruption #americanhistory #documentary