good friday, 1922. and that led congress to start an investigation into what was going on there. when humphries, the guy with the big manages in denver, when he found out he was going to have to testify to congress, to the congressional committee investigating the scandal, he killed himself in the mansion. hence the mansion being haunted. the head of sinclair oil did testify to congress. he ended up going to prison in the scandal. the head of one of the other oil companies that was implicated in the same scandal, his son ended up dead less than a year later in a mysterious murder/suicide that's still never totally been explained. warren g. harding's interior secretary, albert fall, the guy who took the bribes to get the cheap oil leases, he got convicted of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. would have been millions in bribes in today's money. one of the lasting historical impacts of the scandal is that albert fall, interior secretary, became the first former u.s. cabinet official to get sentenced to prison for something he did while he was in office. even before fall went to prison,

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