Albert B. Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet and was previously a Senator from New Mexico, is found guilty on October 25, 1929, of accepting bribes while in office.
The Bribe investigation revealed that Fall received bribes for leases of publicly-owned Teapot Dome oil fields in Wyoming and Elk Hills in California to oil tycoons. Receiving roughly $400,000 in cash and bonds from Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny in 1921–1922 which he claimed were personal loans. He was sentenced to one year in prison. Despite Albert Fall's conviction for accepting bribes, Sinclair and Doheny were acquitted of paying them. More
