Boss Tweed Tammany Hall
Boss tweed is chiefly remembered for the cronyism of his tammany hall political machine through which he bilked the city of new york of massive sums of money.
Boss tweed tammany hall. Tweed also essentially created tammany hall the greatest political machine in american history. At the heart of it all was william magear tweed nicknamed boss tweed the corrupt politician behind the tammany hall party machine from the height of its power in 1868 to his eventual downfall in 1871. William magear boss tweed leader of new york city s corrupt tammany hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s is delivered to authorities. The foot soldiers of tammany hall were the hundreds of thousands of irish immigrants who streamed.
He was later convicted in 1877 for stealing an estimated 1 2 million in taxes through political corruption.