{"id":165,"date":"2024-01-03T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/?p=165"},"modified":"2024-01-03T03:27:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:27:30","slug":"scott-pruitt-epa-administrator-resigned-in-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator (resigned in disgrace)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scott Pruitt, the former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was involved in a series of controversies during his tenure leading to ethics investigations and his resignation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>These included: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Excessive Spending<\/strong>: Utilizing taxpayer funds for first or business class flights, charter flights, and military aircraft, leading to unusually high travel costs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Security Expenditures<\/strong>: Expanding his security detail to unprecedented levels and incurring significant costs, including around-the-clock protection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Management Practices<\/strong>: Accusations of creating a secretive work environment at the EPA, reassigning or demoting staff who opposed his spending or management practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Housing Arrangements<\/strong>: Leasing a condo in Washington D.C. from a lobbyist couple at a below-market rate, raising ethical concerns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Use of Government Resources<\/strong>: Allegations of using EPA staff for personal errands and tasks unrelated to his official duties.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Pruitt, the former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was involved in a series of controversies during his tenure leading to ethics investigations and his resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump-employees"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pruitt-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pruitt-600x563.png","author_info":{"display_name":"turd","author_link":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crimeboss.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}