They didn't bribe him. They befriended him.

Описание: Abel Corbin was sixty-one and not important, except that he was married to the President's sister. A million and a half in gold, bought in his name, called a gift. He fled New York and died broke twenty-one years later.

The full story is the Jay Gould documentary on this channel.

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