William Magear “Boss” Tweed, a bellwether of Incipient York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s, is distributed to ascendant entities in New York City after his catch in Spain. Tweed became a potent figure in Tammany Hall–New York City’s Democratic political machine–in the late 1850s. By the mid-1860s, he had risen to the top position in the organization and composed the “Tweed Ring,” which openly bought votes, inspirited judicial corruption, extracted millions from city contracts, and dominated Incipient York City politics. The Tweed Ring reached its apex of fraudulence in 1871 with the remodeling of the City Court House, a conspicuously perceivable embezzlement of city funds that was exposed
