What the tweed ring in New York?

The Tweed ring scandal was started in 1870 new york Boss tweed employed bribery, graft and fraud elections to milk the metropolis of as much as 200 million. New york times found damming evidence and Published it in 1871 Thomas Nast made Cartoons incriminating Tweed mercilessly. Tweed was tride and sent to jail to die behind bars