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Credit Mobilier and the Credit and Finance Corporation became infamous as what?
A) Subsidiary corporations that defrauded public money by inflating construction costs for the first transcontinental railroad.
B) The main contractors for the first transcontinental railroad.
C) Early pioneers of steamboat technology.
D) Oil companies run by interlocking directorates.


Sagot :

I would say A. This was a scandal involving the illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in the United States between 1865 and 1869.