Violation Tracker Mega-Scandal Totals

Note: Mega-Scandals are clusters of major cases in which companies paid fines or settlements of $25 million or more. The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome.

Rank	Mega-Scandal	Total Penalties	Number of Records
4	Price Fixing	$43,560,101,570	426
1	Toxic Securities	$148,423,862,498	140
17	Healthcare Billing Abuses	$10,640,554,423	120
10	Foreign Bribery	$19,594,025,958	110
2	Mortgage Abuses	$84,104,995,766	106
15	Healthcare Kickbacks	$12,149,231,981	97
12	Benchmark Manipulation	$18,274,975,000	91
31	Wage Theft	$5,987,606,308	83
3	Opioid Crisis	$70,892,409,664	83
22	Drug Pricing Abuses	$8,669,833,464	80
7	Sanctions Violations	$25,622,319,767	73
25	Generic Drug Pay for Delay	$8,598,975,000	68
9	Improper Drug Marketing	$20,653,020,587	66
34	Federal Contractor Abuses	$5,499,043,822	64
21	Anti-Money Laundering Deficiencies	$9,051,644,873	48
8	Pharmaceutical Hazards	$23,392,652,203	44
23	Assisting Tax Evasion	$8,662,849,310	38
6	Emissions Cheating	$32,504,055,116	38
38	Market Timing Abuses	$4,163,300,000	36
44	Employment Discrimination	$2,653,745,000	35
50	Brokerage House Conflicts of Interest	$1,681,000,000	32
26	Refinery Pollution	$7,753,543,499	31
29	Early 2000s Accounting Scandals	$6,113,370,000	29
28	Student Loan and For-Profit College Abuses	$6,406,964,267	26
19	Medical Equipment Hazards	$9,555,660,000	25
14	Power Plant Emissions	$14,002,726,883	24
40	Overdraft Fees	$3,101,367,200	19
39	Credit Card Issuer Abuses	$3,818,800,000	19
13	PFC/PFOA	$16,110,850,000	18
33	Predatory Lending	$5,554,114,119	17
11	Wildfire Liability	$18,526,500,000	16
27	Online Privacy	$7,319,000,000	15
49	Defective Building Materials	$2,003,625,558	15
5	Deepwater Horizon	$35,854,750,000	14
47	Data Breach Liability	$2,189,357,939	14
35	Western Energy Crisis	$5,431,700,000	13
45	PCBs	$2,473,749,999	13
37	Defective Airbags	$4,302,486,448	13
51	Discriminatory Lending Practices	$1,635,950,000	12
54	Wage Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements	$792,950,000	11
24	Bogus Bank Accounts	$8,639,000,000	10
36	Cryptocurrency	$5,093,167,538	10
52	Vaping Marketing	$1,440,331,250	9
55	Federal Leaseholder Abuse	$479,869,584	9
53	Big Dig	$1,380,600,000	7
42	Insider Trading	$2,719,747,463	5
18	Roundup	$9,764,550,000	4
20	Swipe Fees	$9,250,000,000	4
41	Unintended Acceleration	$2,829,000,000	3
48	Madoff Scandal	$2,128,000,000	3
16	Talc Litigation	$11,400,000,000	2
32	Tax Disputes	$5,700,000,000	2
46	GMOs	$2,260,000,000	2
43	Boeing 737 Max	$2,713,600,000	2
30	Defective Earplugs	$6,000,000,000	1
56	Upper Big Branch Disaster	$209,000,000	1
57	Food Safety	$41,675,000	1