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The Teapot Dome Scandal was an American political scandal of the early 1920s. It involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves at Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, by Albert Bacon Fall—U.S. Pres. Warren G. Harding’s secretary of the interior—to oil tycoons Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair. Fall, who had received as much as $400,000 in bribes, became the first cabinet member to be imprisoned for crimes committed while in office. Harding was never personally implicated in the scandal, but the stress related to it took a toll on his health, and he died in office.

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