Scott Pruitt Reportedly Lied About Knowledge Of Staff Raises
Source: Huff post
POLITICS 04/06/2018 04:25 am ET Updated 3 hours ago
The report adds to a growing mountain of ethical issues dogging Pruitts tenure.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt both knew about and supported massive raises for two of his longtime aides, despite denying having any knowledge of the action, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
Citing two EPA officials familiar with the decision and a White House official, the Post said Pruitt instructed agency officials to give a $56,765 raise to Sarah Greenwalt and a $28,130 raise to Millan Hupp. Both women worked with Pruitt in Oklahoma where he served as attorney general and followed him to Washington, according to The Atlantic, which first reported the salary bumps.
Just a day earlier, Pruitt was subject to a blistering line of questioning from Fox News Ed Henry, who asked if the EPA administrator had any knowledge of the pay increases, which were carried out through a provision of the Safe Drinking Water Act after the White House rejected them.
I found out this yesterday and I corrected the action, and we are in the process of finding out how it took place and correcting that going forward, Pruitt said after attempting to duck the question several times. Henry later asked if the EPA chief was embarrassed by the size of the raises........................
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scott-pruitt-raises-washington-post_us_5ac7199ae4b07a3485e2eb9b
I said earlier that I was looking for an article since the WashPost had buried it within another article, so I finally found a few
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210457044
DeminPennswoods
(15,292 posts)IIRC, he was on Hardball yesterday and Matthews asked about Pruitt. Fineman said Pruitt is/has been doing a lot of self-promotion and such since he became EPA head. He went to say that in an organization named after Trump and an administration named Trump, there's room for only one "sun king" and that person is named Trump, not Pruitt.
The fact is there are lots of conventional Republicans who are just as eager to roll back EPA rules and regulations and won't compete with Trump for attention. I can't see Trump keeping Pruitt on and allowing him to be the continuing focus of media attention.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He's a serial liar like trump. Corruption running wild out of this White House.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,693 posts)cstanleytech
(26,342 posts)After all since it is official government paperwork you would think it would be facing criminal charges if lied on it.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,693 posts)getagrip_already
(14,923 posts)He has surely violated laws. At what point do the IG investigations mature to charges?
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)Oh yeah, right...I forgot. Most corrupt administration in history.
IMO, it isn't enough to fire Pruitt, he should be charged with a crime(s).
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)I hear it from an MSNBC contributor from time to time but it isn't enough to make an impact. It has to come from the top and I fear it won't.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Tie him to them. He is part of the Koch Family network. Like locusts, they will devour our Country.
The two dozen nonprofit groups and Senate committee members who spoke up to defend Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trumps nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, have at least two things in common.
Like Pruitt, theyre climate science deniers. And, like Pruitt, most of them are funded by Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who own the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries.
https://www.ucsusa.org/publications/got-science/2017/got-science-feb-2017#.WsexO5kpChB
BigmanPigman
(51,646 posts)Maybe the poor animals that they will be making sick and eventually die can have a nice deplorable lunch courtesy of the Kochs and Pruitt..
magicarpet
(14,197 posts)..... through the mud puddles of his corruption. That way Pruitt will come out dirtier than Sessions - so tRdump can no longer swap them and dump Sessions. Because if Sessions goes bye-bye so goes Mueller's bye-bye too.
joshdawg
(2,652 posts)I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya!
And it case it's needed: