"The woman setting up Pruitt’s defense fund is a hard-line climate science denier known for opposing donor disclosure requirements for political donations."
"A group representing government environmental employees filed a federal ethics complaint on Wednesday contending that Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is violating conflict of interest laws by seeking private contributions to a legal defense fund set up to defend him against ethics complaints.
The group, Public Employees for Environmental Ethics (PEER), filed the complaint with the Justice Department's Office of Government Ethics. Pruitt's practices are the subject of about a dozen different investigations.
Pruitt revealed the existence of a defense fund to help pay for his legal representation at a May 16 hearing before a Senate Appropriations Committee panel. At the time, he said he would promise not to accept donations from lobbyists or entities with business before the EPA, and he said that the identity of the donors would be made public "pursuant to the requirements of disclosures.""
Marianne Lavelle reports for InsideClimate News May 30, 2018.
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"Scott Pruitt Is Trying to Fix His Ethical Nightmare With…Another Ethical Nightmare" (Mother Jones)
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