Why everybody think it s haunted, is albert humphries. a rich oil man. in the 1920s, a.e. humphries made the oil deal of a lifetime. he sold more than 300 million barrels of oil to a company that didn t really exist. and by using that fake company and this huge oil deal, he started the ball rolling on what was and remains one of the greatest american political scandals of all time those 300 million barrels of oil, he sold them to a whole bunch of oil executives, executives of other oil companies, for $1.50 a barrel. those oil executives then turned around and sold the same oil to their respective companies at $1.75 a barrel. and they kept the difference. they needed the fake companies, the middleman in order to disguise that they were keeping the markup. and that markup was a huge deal. in the 1920s, that deal produced an $8.3 million slush fund for these guys. and what did they do with their huge slush fund?
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. cabin
what? this is it s a valid question. if you ever do that to me again i ll break you in half. like a boy. i never understood the like a boy part, but that was congressman michael grimm, staten island, new york, ready to break that young reporter in half like a boy. whether the breaking like a boy was supposed to happen before or after the congressman threw him off the bleeping balcony, which he also threatened, that also is not that clear, but congressman grimm made those threats on camera and he noticed the camera. you saw him look at the big camera right in the middle of making those threats. congressman grimm made those threats in front of a big camera back in january on the night of president obama s 2014 state of the union address. at first congressman grimm defended his behavior. basically said the reporter from new york had it coming then 12 hours later he apologized. congressman grimm after that kind of fell out of the headlines for a while, but then today late t