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