warren g. harding's interior secretary, albert fall, the guy who took the bribes to get the cheap oil leases, he got convicted of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. would have been millions in bribes in today's money. one of the lasting historical impacts of the scandal is that albert fall, interior secretary, became the first former u.s. cabinet official to get sentenced to prison for something he did while he was in office. even before fall went to prison, less than a year and a half after the "wall street journal" break the story, president harding himself dropped dead on a trip to california that people thought he had taken to distract from the ongoing scandal in washington. so warren g. harding never even served a full term as president. but he is considered to be one of the worst presidents in american history. and we've had a lot of bad presidents. >>> the supreme court ruling that came out of the scandal is the one that established that when congressional committees are investigat