The beginning of the end for "Boss" Tweed began on July 8, 1871 when cartoonist Thomas Nast received information about the corruption at Tammany Hall. Nast who was working for Harper's Weekly, joined forces with The New York Times who had started a series of articles exposing the corruption of Tammany Hall. In his cartoons, Thomas Nast used his talents to depict Tweed as a thief which were published week after week in Harper's Weekly. Tweed is -inally indicted on criminal charges in December and expelled from
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[Thomas Nast Self-caricature] Harper's Weekly, December 2, 1876, cover.