Edward L. Doheny
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Edward L. Doheny was an American businessman involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal of the early 1920s. As the head of the Pan American Petroleum Company, he secretly received leases for federal oil reserves in California from Albert Bacon Fall, the U.S. secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding. This occurred in 1921â22.
The investigation revealed that Doheny had provided Fall with a $100,000 "loan" prior to the leases being granted. Although Doheny was acquitted of bribery charges, the scandal led to the cancellation of the leases and Fall's imprisonment for accepting bribes. The Teapot Dome Scandal became synonymous with governmental corruption.1
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Harry F. SinclairâŠno-interest âloansâ from Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, another oil producer who had taken out a similar lease with Fallâs approval. A Senate investigation subsequently brought the scandal to light, and the leases were canceled. Sinclair was cited for contempt of the U.S. Senate for refusing to answer certain questionsâŠ
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Teapot Dome ScandalHe granted similar rights to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum Company for the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills reserves in California (1921â22).
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