IMPRISONMENT AND FINE

Evening Star, Issue 20322, 2 November 1929, Page 15

IMPRISONMENT AND FINE

TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL FALL SENTENCED. £ress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, November 1. •(Received November 2, at 9 a.m.) Albert E. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, was convicted of accepting a bribe of 100,00Udol in connection with oil and land leases, which he denied. At the new trial Mr Justice Hitz sentenced him to one year’s imprisonment and imposed a fine of 100,000dol. [The Teapot Dome oil scandal commenced in 1923 upon the investigation of a committee of the United States Senate into the conditions under which oil lands in Wyoming and California which had been set aside by Congress as a fuel oil ’ reserve for the United States navy had been transferred from the naval authorities to the Department of the Interior, and then by Mr Fall, the former head of the department, to fhe Sinclair and Doheny oil interests. Evidence was given during the inquiry of substantial financial assistance having been given by both Sinclair and Doheny to Mr . Fall. The latter and Doheny were charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government, but after a long trial were acquitted in December, 1926. The leases were cancelled by a Not© of the Senate.]