4. Ulysses S. Grant: Black Friday and Whiskey Ring
Grant’s brother in law Abel Rathbone Corbin was in cahoots with the elites of Wall Street Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to steal from the U.S. gold market. This caused its epic crash on September 24th 1869. Grant also tried to hide how his secretary Orville Babcock was convicted for bribing officials in order to avoid the high post Civil War taxes placed on liquor.
