Teapot Dome
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- Teapot Dome (1922-3)
- Scandal that overtook the Republican governemnt
- 14th April 1922 - the Wall Street Journal reported a secret arrangement
- Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, had leased the US naval petroleum reserve at Teapot Dome in Wyoming
- Leased the reserve to a private oil company owned by Harry Sinclair
- Also leased land at Elk Hills in California to oil man Edward Doheny
- Wisconsin Republican Senator, Robert La Follette, arranged for the Senate Committee on Public Lands to investigate
- 1921 - Senate found that Doheny had lent Fall $100,000, interest free
- Sinclair also 'loaned' him a large sum of money when Fall retired as Secretary of the Interior
- Fall convicted of accepting bribes and became first Cabinet member to go to prison
- Fall received a one year sentence and was fined $100,000
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