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Pruitt owed lawyers up to $300K for work last year
This is amusing https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/12/pruitt-epa-legal-debts-782770
Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt racked up as much as $300,000 in personal legal debts in 2017, according to a financial disclosure released by the agency Wednesday.
The disclosure indicates Pruitt owed between $100,001 and $250,000 to Crowe & Dunlevy, an Oklahoma City-based firm, at the end of last year. He also owed between $15,001 and $50,000 to Oklahoma law firm Riggs Abney Neal Turpen.
Pruitt’s disclosure covered only calendar year 2017, before many of the ethics scandals that drove him out of office came to light in spring 2018.
The disclosure does not specify what specific issues those law firms worked on for Pruitt. He faced several investigations related to his EPA work, and the Oklahoma Bar Association was investigating him on an ethics complaint as well, a inquiry that was dismissed in July, a few weeks after Pruitt resigned from EPA.
Pruitt has also retained Cleta Mitchell, a D.C.-based attorney at Foley & Lardner, as well as Paul Rauser, co-founder of the firm Aegis Law Group, neither of whom is listed on Pruitt's 2017 disclosure. Pruitt also launched a legal defense fund, contributions to which will have to be disclosed on his 2018 financial disclosure if they were made when he was still EPA administrator.
The disclosure indicates Pruitt owed between $100,001 and $250,000 to Crowe & Dunlevy, an Oklahoma City-based firm, at the end of last year. He also owed between $15,001 and $50,000 to Oklahoma law firm Riggs Abney Neal Turpen.
Pruitt’s disclosure covered only calendar year 2017, before many of the ethics scandals that drove him out of office came to light in spring 2018.
The disclosure does not specify what specific issues those law firms worked on for Pruitt. He faced several investigations related to his EPA work, and the Oklahoma Bar Association was investigating him on an ethics complaint as well, a inquiry that was dismissed in July, a few weeks after Pruitt resigned from EPA.
Pruitt has also retained Cleta Mitchell, a D.C.-based attorney at Foley & Lardner, as well as Paul Rauser, co-founder of the firm Aegis Law Group, neither of whom is listed on Pruitt's 2017 disclosure. Pruitt also launched a legal defense fund, contributions to which will have to be disclosed on his 2018 financial disclosure if they were made when he was still EPA administrator.
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