Position, william buknap, disfing wished soldier, secretary of war, started throwing really, really laving lavish parties in washingtolavig i that was true with his first wife. Also true with his second life. He was just very obviously living this ostentatious High Society Life of conspicuous consumption in washington that nobody knew he should be able to afford. Nobody knew where the money was coming from until they figured it out because it turned out where he was getting all the money from is he was taking bribes. He was taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes as secretary of war. People who wanted jobs related to the u. S. Military of the 1870s, apparently one of the ways you can get one of those jobs was to grease the palm of war secretary William Belknap and he got caught for it. And as a cabinet secretary, he was subject to impeachment by the congress and he got impeached for being that corrupt. They brought five articles of impeachment against him for him prostituting his