Teapot Dome

Teapot Dome, scandal over government malpractice under President Warren G. Harding. The naval oil reserve at Teapot Dome, Wyo., was leased in 1922 by agreement of Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall to the Mammoth Oil Co. with no competitive bidding. A Senate investigation followed, and the lease was canceled. Fall was later convicted of receiving another bribe in a similar transaction.