Teapot Dome scandal
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teapot-dome-scandal-207-359118
title:
Teapot Dome scandal
text:
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of an investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the fi
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description:
1921–1923 U.S. Cabinet bribery scandal
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
date created:
2002-12-17T11:16:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T02:48:05Z
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