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riversedge

(69,730 posts)
Wed May 2, 2018, 04:10 PM May 2018

Memo: Pruitt landlord's husband sought EPA work for client

Source: apnews




Memo: Pruitt landlord’s husband sought EPA work for client

WASHINGTON (AP) — The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt at $50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client, according to a newly released EPA memo.

J. Steven Hart’s seeking those appointments from his wife’s former tenant, Pruitt, shows “the extent to which the special interests providing him with gifts have sought specific favors from EPA in return,” said Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The memo makes for the latest in a months-long barrage of news reports and federal investigations questioning spending and other actions at Pruitt’s EPA. Pruitt’s former security chief, whose time with Pruitt saw the EPA administrator provided with round-the-clock security and first-class flights in the name of security, was due to appear for an interview with staff on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday.

The New York Times first reported the new memo from Hart, the lobbyist.

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Pallone, the lawmaker, called the August email “further proof that Administrator Pruitt has consistently misled Congress and the public.”...........................


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Memo: Pruitt landlord's husband sought EPA work for client (Original Post) riversedge May 2018 OP
Watch the moron replace Kelley with Pruitt. BigmanPigman May 2018 #1
The corruption running wild duforsure May 2018 #2

duforsure

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2. The corruption running wild
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:39 PM
May 2018

From dt and his administration. GOP doing nothing. Voters waiting for Nov. 6th to respond.

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