In 2007, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was involved in a fraudulent deal for a national broadband network with a Chinese government corporation known as ZTE. The deal, according to Arroyo, was to cost approximately 329 million dollars, which was 197 million dollars more than the actual cost of building the network. Arroyo's husband and an electoral chair member planned to take the extra money for themselves as a commission.
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Political cartoon of the teapot dome scandal?
Teapot Dome Scandal
Ulysses S. Grant was the president of the US when The Whiskey Ring Scandal of 1875 was exposed.
The Tea Pot Scandal commonly called The Teapot Dome Scandal
Ulysses S. Grant was President in 1875 when the Whiskey Ring Scandal was exposed.