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Pruitt's security team had the police break down the condo door because they thought he was unconscious/unresponsive. Turned out he was taking a nap.
When the landlord demanded that someone pay for the door, the EPA agreed to pay.
That's when it was revealed that the landlord was the wife of a guy that ran a lobbying firm that lobbied the EPA on the Clean Air Act and such.
Apparently, he and is wife co-owned the condo that was less than a block from from the U.S. Capitol Complex. While apartments in the complex rent for $5,000/month on a long-term lease, according to checks the EPA provided Bloomberg, Pruitt was paying nowhere near that much.
To further complicate matters, Pruitt traveled to "Morocco last December and the EPA said in a press release that liquid natural gas exports were a topic of discussion during that trip."
Strangely enough, this exact same lobbying firm lobbies for liquid natural gas exports.
Why Pruitt was pitching natural gas exports is anybody's guess as it isn't an EPA concern.
Pruitt's security team had the police break down the condo door because they thought he was unconscious/unresponsive. Turned out he was taking a nap.
When the landlord demanded that someone pay for the door, the EPA agreed to pay.
That's when it was revealed that the landlord was the wife of a guy that ran a lobbying firm that lobbied the EPA on the Clean Air Act and such.
Apparently, he and is wife co-owned the condo that was less than a block from from the U.S. Capitol Complex. While apartments in the complex rent for $5,000/month on a long-term lease, according to checks the EPA provided Bloomberg, Pruitt was paying nowhere near that much.
To further complicate matters, Pruitt traveled to "Morocco last December and the EPA said in a press release that liquid natural gas exports were a topic of discussion during that trip."
Strangely enough, this exact same lobbying firm lobbies for liquid natural gas exports.
Why Pruitt was pitching natural gas exports is anybody's guess as it isn't an EPA concern.
A energy lobbyist allowed Pruitt to use the DC condo just to store his stuff, he only needed to pay for the nights he stayed and his daughter had a bedroom for $50 a night. He travels with detail of 30 people for security when he went to Morocco and Italy costing around $40K per, why he needs to go these places is another story.
An energy lobbyist bribing the EPA, this is new.
Total conflict of interest, he needs to be fired.
Last edited by Goodnight; 03-30-2018 at 07:01 PM..
Yes. He is NOT rolling back regulations in order for these companies to offer more jobs to Americans.
He is carrying out the Trump plan to put more wealth into the hands of the wealthy.
If the environment gets ef d up, kids get more cancers, that is beside the plan. As soon as Pruitt caves into "public pressure" from the public he is supposed to be serving, he ll be out.
He should go to jail for selling out American, killing people by adding more pollutants to the air, ruining our economy by making sure we can't compete with the rest of the world in efficiency and taking gifts from lobbyists.....and, as usual, those are probably only the tip of the iceberg.
How can accepting rental space from a building owned by a lobbyist conducting business before the EPA be consistent with ethics rules. A lobbyist can provide gifts and that is not a violation.
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WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, rented a residence in Washington in 2017 that was partly owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist whose firm, according to disclosure forms, conducted business before the E.P.A. that same year.
While the agency said on Friday that the arrangement was consistent with federal ethics rules, the developments come as Mr. Pruitt is already under fire from Congress regarding unrelated ethics questions. In February, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee ordered Mr. Pruitt to turn over documents related to his first-class travel at taxpayer expense, questioning whether he had received the appropriate waivers to do so.
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