Today in History: October 25, Teapot Dome Scandal conviction

[Omaha Steve]

https://apnews.com/today-in-history/october-25

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published 11:00 PM CDT, October 24, 2025
Today in history:

On Oct. 25, 1929, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for oil field leases at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and Elk Hills and Buena Vista oil fields in California; as a result of the “Teapot Dome Scandal,” Fall would become the first U.S. cabinet member to be imprisoned for crimes committed while in office.

[samnsara]

1. here in central washington there is a teapot dome gas station..

..not sure if it sells gas anymore but its a regular fixture on a back country road where i grew up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. If maga could read they should take note. Maybe there's a 30 second video for them. . . . nt

[SheltieLover]

3. Repukes have a long hiztory of grift.

[TheFarseer]

4. This shit is quaint now

You can bribe a cabinet member with a literal bag of money for contracts to a non existent company and they say people are just mad he’s doing such a good job 👍 You can even take a bribe to pardon a crypto asshole that was money laundering for Hamas and Al Qaeda and apparently no one cares. Could you take a bribe to nuke New York City and get away with it at this point? I’m seriously not sure you would get in trouble.

[blogslug]

5. Reading that AP bit, a lot happened on this day

George III (the mad one) became king.
John Brown went on trial.
Adlai Stevenson exposed Russian missiles in Cuba at the UN.
Ronny Rayguns invaded Grenada.
Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash.

Not in the AP piece, another thing that happened on the very same day Albert Fall was convicted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_crash_of_1929

The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It triggered a rapid erosion of confidence in the U.S. banking system and marked the beginning of the worldwide Great Depression that lasted until 1939, making it the most devastating crash in the country's history. It is most associated with October 24, 1929, known as "Black Thursday", when a record 12.9 million shares were traded on the exchange, and October 29, 1929, or "Black Tuesday", when some 16.4 million shares were traded...

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