Ex-aide: Officials intentionally kept Pruitt meeting with accused Cardinal off his schedule
A former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official claims that top aides to Administrator Scott Pruitt intentionally left the presence of an Australian cardinal under investigation for sexual abuse off official descriptions of a dinner Pruitt attended for fear it would reflect poorly on the EPA chief.
Kevin Chmielewski, Pruitt's former deputy chief of staff, said in an interview with The New York Times published Friday that the decision to omit the cardinal's presence from official EPA schedules for the day was a "no-brainer."
The Times first reported this week the presence of the Vatican official, Cardinal George Pell, at the dinner, which took place at a five-star restaurant last June in Rome.
Pell has been under investigation for multiple allegations of child sex assault since 2016, and had been the subject of news reports in the months since the allegations surfaced.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/387362-ex-aide-epa-intentionally-kept-pruitt-meeting-with-cardinal-accused
