The Raum Investigation. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Select Committee on Charges Against the Commissioner of Pensions.
by various
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1891 Hard cover, 8vo, in modern brown cloth binding with brown and gilt label onlaid to spine, 419pp., First Edition. Condition: Very Good, with browned, age-toned pages, one or two of which have short closed tears at fore edge.** The investigation took place in 1892, under the aegis of the Select Committee on Charges Against the Commissioner of Pensions. Commissioner Green B. Raum, of the Pension Bureau, stood accused of a stock-selling swindle for offering "highly speculative" shares in his Universal Refrigerator Company to members of his own office, in return for preferential treatment at work. This was during a period rife with Civil War pension fraud and abuse. Additionally, he was accused of a pay-for-play scheme with the Washington law firm of George E. Lemon, whose pension applicant clients were shown preferential treatment in return for a kickback to Mr. Raum estimated at $25,000 but actually $12,000 (W. Barlow, in "U. S. Commissioner of Pensions Green B. Raum of Illinois," in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Vol. 60, No. 3 p. 301.) The resulting scandal implicated a couple of Republican Senators and a member of the investigating committee. OCLC 968589519.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
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- Title
- The Raum Investigation. Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Select Committee on Charges Against the Commissioner of Pensions.
- Author
- various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1891
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