Steve Olson on Mythryl: “The Teapot Dome scandal, which 100 years later, every kid reads…”

@steveolson.bsky.social

The Teapot Dome scandal, which 100 years later, every kid reads about in school as the most rank corruption, was over roughly $11M in bribes (in 2025 dollars) to then-Secretary of the Interior Albert fall,

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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