A test that Fall had forgotten to cover was discovered.
The $100,000 loan from Doheny a Fall.
This discovery opened the scandal.
The civil and criminal lawsuits related to the scandal continued throughout the 1920s.
- In 1927 The Supreme Court ruled that oil leases had been obtained in a corrupt manner. The court invalidated the Elk Hills lease agreement in February, and the lease of Teapot Dome in October.
- Both reserves were returned to the Navy
- In 1929, Albert Fall was found guilty of accepting bribes from Foheny.
- Another significant outcome was the Supreme Court's ruling in McGrain v. Daugherty in 1927 wich, for the first time, explicitly established that Congress had the power to compel testimony.
