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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.

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RankMega-ScandalTotal Penalties sort iconNumber of Records
1Toxic Securities$148,423,862,498140
2Mortgage Abuses$84,104,995,766106
3Opioid Crisis$72,912,409,66488
4Price Fixing$44,216,101,570435
5Deepwater Horizon$35,854,750,00014
6Emissions Cheating$32,550,055,11639
7Pharmaceutical Hazards$26,555,138,09248
8Sanctions Violations$25,622,319,76773
9Improper Drug Marketing$20,653,020,58766
10Foreign Bribery$19,718,025,958111
11Wildfire Liability$18,526,500,00016
12Benchmark Manipulation$18,274,975,00091
13Cryptocurrency$17,824,402,94812
14PFC/PFOA$16,110,850,00018
15Power Plant Emissions$14,171,726,88325
16Healthcare Kickbacks$12,693,719,371100
17Anti-Money Laundering Deficiencies$12,466,722,29857
18Talc Litigation$11,400,000,0002
19Healthcare Billing Abuses$10,875,354,423124
20Medical Equipment Hazards$10,259,260,00028
21Roundup$9,764,550,0004
22Swipe Fees$9,250,000,0004
23Online Privacy$9,067,500,00022
24Generic Drug Pay for Delay$8,791,475,00072
25Drug Pricing Abuses$8,719,833,46481
26Assisting Tax Evasion$8,662,849,31038
27Bogus Bank Accounts$8,639,000,00010
28Refinery Pollution$7,995,043,49932
29Federal Contractor Abuses$6,763,843,82269
30Student Loan and For-Profit College Abuses$6,526,964,26727
31Wage Theft$6,333,406,30888
32Early 2000s Accounting Scandals$6,113,370,00029
33Defective Earplugs$6,000,000,0001
34Tax Disputes$5,700,000,0002
35Predatory Lending$5,554,114,11917
36Western Energy Crisis$5,431,700,00013
37Defective Airbags$4,302,486,44813
38Market Timing Abuses$4,163,300,00036
39Credit Card Issuer Abuses$3,818,800,00019
40Boeing 737 Max$3,412,200,0003
41Overdraft Fees$3,101,367,20019
42Unintended Acceleration$2,829,000,0003
43Insider Trading$2,719,747,4635
44Employment Discrimination$2,678,745,00036
45PCBs$2,633,749,99914
46GMOs$2,260,000,0002
47Data Breach Liability$2,241,357,93915
48Madoff Scandal$2,128,000,0003
49Defective Building Materials$2,003,625,55815
50Brokerage House Conflicts of Interest$1,681,000,00032
51Discriminatory Lending Practices$1,635,950,00012
52Vaping Marketing$1,440,331,2509
53Big Dig$1,380,600,0007
54Wage Fixing and No-Poaching Agreements$792,950,00011
55Federal Leaseholder Abuse$479,869,5849
56Upper Big Branch Disaster$209,000,0001
57Food Safety$41,675,0001
(*): Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting.