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American Scandal
Wondery
4.6 • 18.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Democratic congressional leaders and independent oil men are furious when they learn that Interior Secretary Albert Fall leased federal oil reserves with no open bidding or public debate.. Montana Senator Thomas Walsh reluctantly agrees to head an investigation, even as Fall brazenly sets out to collect his kickbacks and retire to his ranch in New Mexico.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American scandal early and ad free right now. |
| 0:05.7 | Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wandering. It's February 1922 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| 0:28.0 | D.F. Stackelbeck is sitting in the offices of the local daily newspaper, the Albuquerque Morning Journal. |
| 0:34.6 | He's watching the clock tick as he waits to meet with the editor. |
| 0:38.2 | Stackelbeck is a reporter for the Denver Post, a newspaper based some 500 miles north, but he's traveled south today to follow |
| 0:45.4 | up on a tip concerning former New Mexico Senator Albert Fall. |
| 0:50.3 | About a year ago, Fall was appointed secretary of the interior the cabinet position |
| 0:54.2 | responsible for protecting and managing the country's natural resources. |
| 0:58.6 | But recently Stackelbeck's bosses at the Denver Post received some evidence suggesting that Fall might be abusing his office. |
| 1:06.3 | According to a disgruntled former employee, Fall has been handing out oil leases to his friends, |
| 1:11.9 | quote, like kisses at a wedding. |
| 1:13.8 | And if this is true, it means the country's resources are being stolen out from |
| 1:18.2 | under the nose of the American public, and they have a right to know about it. |
| 1:21.7 | So Stackelbeck was dispatched by and they have a right to know about it. |
| 1:29.0 | So Stackelbeck was dispatched by his editors to sniff around Falls home state and see what he can find out. And he believes that the man he's about to meet, Carl McGee, has more dirt on fall than just about anyone. |
| 1:36.0 | For the past two years, McGee has been the owner and editor of the Morning Journal in Albuquerque. |
| 1:41.4 | And in that time, the paper has devoted a considerable amount of space to investigating its former owner, Albert Fall. |
| 1:48.0 | But since Stackelbeck works for a rival paper, he suspects McGee isn't likely to give up information too easily. |
| 1:54.3 | Stackelbeck will probably have to give McGee something in return and that might |
| 1:58.8 | mean sharing the biggest scoop of his career. |
| 2:12.0 | Growing tired of watching the clock, Stackleback finally hears his name called and turns to see McGee standing at the open door of his office. |
| 2:12.8 | McGee waves him over and follows him inside. |
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