How does a person's leadership or membership role within a group affect how others judge that person's transgressions? Participants evaluated either a leader or a regular member of either an ingroup or an outgroup who transgressed by engaging in either bribery (Experiment 1) or blackmail (Experiment 2). In both experiments, transgressors were judged less punitively if they were ingroup leaders than ingroup members, outgroup members, or outgroup leaders. The severity of the transgression and whether it served group interests did not alter this effect, which shows that people may apply a double standard to an ingroup leader's transgressions. Implications are discussed for the spread of corruption among leaders and followers.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)