Edward L. Doheny prices were high. The Mexican Petroleum Company was the largest in Mexico, and Mexico was the largest oil producer in the world. In 1922 Albert B. Fall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased the oil field at Elk Hills, California, to the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company. Around the same time, the Teapot Dome Field in Wyoming was leased to Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation. Both oilfields were part of the US Navy's petroleum reserves. Neither lease was subject to competitive bidding. In 1924 rumors about corruption in the deals escalated into the Teapot Dome scandal. Doheny's reputation was somewhat
AWB oil-for-wheat scandal the company was acquired by Agrium Inc. in December 2010 and delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange. Two books have so far been published on the scandal. The first was by Stephen Bartos, entitled "Against the grain : the AWB scandal and why it happened". The second was "Kickback: Inside the Australian Wheat Board Scandal" by "The Australian" journalist Caroline Overington. Reference links are dead links and need to be fixed. Looks like a cover up by the Australian Federal Government AWB oil-for-wheat scandal The AWB oil-for-wheat scandal (also known just as the AWB scandal) refers to the payment of