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Teapot Dome scandal  

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  • The Teapot Dome scandal occurred during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior, secretly leased three federal oil reserves to several oil company officials in 1921 and 1922 and received personal compensation from them. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Teapot Dome Scandal]

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