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What was credit mobiler?

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Crédit Mobilier was a sham construction company chartered to build the Union Pacific Railroad by financing it with unmarketable bonds. It also provided a mechanism to dispense the immense profits from building the railroad to the board of directors and its shareholders.

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this was a two part fraud conducted from 1865 to 1867 by the union pacific railroad and the credit mobilier of American construction company

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