The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website June 15, 2018:
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces rising scrutiny over several ethics issues, including his use of taxpayer money. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
He asked Chick-fil-A. A conservative activist group. Republican donors.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was on a mission to find his wife, Marlyn Pruitt, a job last year, The Washington Post is reporting, and he even used EPA aides to help him do it.
It’s the latest in a months-long string of ethics lapses and alleged abuses of power on Pruitt’s part, but it also could be the most significant for him. Continue reading “Why Scott Pruitt’s effort to get his wife a job could be his most consequential scandal”