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What did the Credit Mobilier investigation do?

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A subsequent investigation by Congress badly smirched the political reputations of Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Senator James W. Patterson of New Hampshire, Representative James Brooks of New York, and othersÑmost of all, of course, Ames himself. Ames and Brooks were censured by Congress, but there were no prosecutions.

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