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President Harding's Secretary of the Interior was the grandest thief in the administration which was raked with scandals. Albert B. Fall leased the navy''s oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming and in Elk Hills, California, to two questionable "businessmen," Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. In return for the oil, Fall received "loans" from the two men of about $300,000. Fall also convinced the President to transfer the oil reserves from the Navy to the Interior Department. Fall became the first Secretary of the Cabinet to serve a prison sentence. The teaqpot come scandal is named for the Teapot Dome, a rock formation in Wyoming that looks like a teapot. It was in the area of a large oil reserve owned by the U.S. Government. The scandal was over bribes for drilling rights to oil in that area paid to Albert Fall, who was the Secretary of the Interior. Accusations of the bribery money went all the way to President Warren Harding, and seriously damaged his reputation and presidency.

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