Denver Company Hired To Sell Teapot Dome Petroleum Reserve

DENVER (AP) — Teapot Dome, the Wyoming federal oil reserve that was at the root of a 1920s political scandal, is up for sale, this time to the highest bidder.

The Denver Post reports the U.S. Department of Energy has hired Denver-based Meagher Energy Advisors to sell the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 3, known as the Teapot Dome.

In 1922 and 1923, Albert Fall, who was President Warren G. Harding's interior secretary, leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome, near Casper, Wyo., in low, no-bid contracts.

Fall was convicted of taking bribes from the oil companies that received the leases, and the leases were returned to the Navy in 1927.

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