What late 19th-century railroad company bribed top officials in the Crédit Mobilier Scandal?

In 1872, it came to light that top officials in the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant – we're talking the vice president, members of congress, and the speaker of the house – accepted bribes from Crédit Mobilier, which was hired to build the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad. In exchange for these bribes, Crédit Mobilier would receive federal funding to build. The scandal showed corruption in capitalism at its finest.

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