Tumult
2025
You pay a guy a bribe who gets you what you want, he’s bought and paid for.
Then he gets caught and serves time. And after that, when he’s down and out, sicker each passing day and fading slow, when his wealth is drained away to pay the lawyers, you foreclose and take away his ranch.
He moves to El Paso and dies.
You’re Edward Laurence Doheny and you’ve bribed Albert Fall.
You’ve sent your son with a black bag stuffed with dirty money, oil soaked bills for President Harding’s Secretary of the Interior.
