Scott Pruitt Reportedly Lied About Knowledge Of Staff Raises

[riversedge]

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 Pruitt’s 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

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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]

1. Howard Fineman's comment

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]

2. Of course he did

He's a serial liar like trump. Corruption running wild out of this White House.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. At this rate, we're going to need a forum devoted solely to Scott Pruitt. NT

[cstanleytech]

4. Please tell me there is evidence of him lying on official government paperwork over it?

After all since it is official government paperwork you would think it would be facing criminal charges if lied on it.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Apparently you've never heard of a "mulligan." NT

[getagrip_already]

5. at what point can pruitt be prosecuted? Ever?

He has surely violated laws. At what point do the IG investigations mature to charges?

[MontanaMama]

6. And this POS still has a job, how?

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]

7. How can he be fired as EPA director when Trump needs him to become the next Attorney General? (eom)

[Fred Sanders]

10. Corruption....needs to be repeated until the corporate media is forced to use the forbidden word.

[MontanaMama]

12. Agreed.

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]

8. He is a Koch brothers boy. Never forget.

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 Trump’s nominee for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, have at least two things in common.

Like Pruitt, they’re 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]

13. Someone needs to go medieval on all of them.

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]

9. I hope the media keeps dragging Pruitt....

..... 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]

14. Wait! What? Pruitt lied?

I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya!

And it case it's needed: