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2 unusual facts about Credit Mobilier


Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

They were already the owners of the Société Générale de Crédit Mobilier, which became the main shareholder.

Credit Mobilier

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal of 1872, the exposed deception by the Union Pacific of overcharging construction costs to taxpayers and manipulating the share prices of Crédit Mobilier of America


Danatbank

The Darmstädter Bank für Handel und Industrie (often called Darmstädter Bank) was founded as the Bank für Handel und Industrie by Gustav von Mevissen and Abraham Oppenheim with a capital of 25 million guilders and modelled after the French bank Crédit Mobilier.

United States congressional hearing

Its most famous inquiries are benchmarks in American history: Credit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Army-McCarthy, Watergate, and Iran-Contra.


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