Pruitt Denies His Landlord’s Clients Had Business Before EPA. They Did.

"The EPA chief’s defense of his sweetheart rental is lacking some basic facts."

"As he doggedly tries to save his job amid a mounting ethics scandal, Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has insisted that there was no formal or informal conflict of interest when he rented a room from high-profile Washington D.C lobbyist, J. Steven Hart.

“Mr. Hart,” Pruitt claimed in an recent interview with Fox News on Wednesday, “has no clients who have business before this agency.”

A review of lobbying disclosure forms and publicly-listed EPA records, however, suggests that Pruitt is either lying or is woefully unfamiliar with the operations of his own agency."

Sam Stein and Lachlan Markay report for the Daily Beast April 5, 2018.