The Elk Hills Scandal is also referred to by this better-known name.
Wounded Knee Massacre
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Star Route Scandal
Tea Pot Dome Scandal. President Warren G. Harding‘s secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, granted Mammoth Oil exclusive rights to oil reserves in the Teapot Dome area in Wyoming‘s Elk Hills. Convicted of taking a bribe, Fall became the first U.S. Cabinet member ever sent to prison.