Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help his wife find a job at Chick-fil-A - Polidicks

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-scott-pruitt-chick-fil-a-20180605-story.html Three months after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, his executive scheduler emailed Dan Cathy, chairman and president of the fast food company Chick-fil-A, with an unusual request: Would Cathy meet with Pruitt to discuss "a potential business opportunity"? A call was arranged, then canceled, and Pruitt eventually spoke with someone from the company's legal department. Only then did he reveal the "opportunity" on his mind was a job for his wife, Marlyn. "The subject of that phone call was an expression of interest in his wife becoming a Chick-fil-A franchisee," company representative Carrie Kurlander told The Washington Post via email.Marlyn Pruitt never opened a restaurant. "Administrator Pruitt's wife started, but did not complete, the Chick-fil-A franchisee application," Kurlander said. But the revelation that Pruitt used his official position and EPA staff to try to line up work for his wife appears to open a new chapter in the ongoing saga of his questionable spending and management decisions, which so far have spawned a dozen federal probes. Pruitt's efforts on his wife's behalf - revealed in emails recently released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Sierra Club - did not end with Chick-fil-A. Pruitt also approached the chief executive of Concordia, a New York nonprofit organization. The executive, Matthew Swift, said he ultimately paid Marlyn Pruitt $2,000 plus travel expenses to help organize the group's annual conference last September. Multiple current and former EPA aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said Pruitt told them he was eager for his wife to start receiving a salary. Two said Pruitt was frustrated in part by the high cost of maintaining homes in both Washington and Oklahoma. According to public records, Pruitt and his wife hold an $850,000 mortgage on their home in an upscale Tulsa, Oklahoma neighborhood, requiring monthly payments of approximately $5,500 - including $17,793 in property taxes the couple paid last year. The mortgage has an adjustable rate, records show, so those payments eventually could rise. In addition, the Pruitts lease an apartment in a modern development on Capitol Hill in Washington where one-bedroom units start at around $3,000 per month. As EPA head, Pruitt currently makes $189,600 a year, according to federal records. In a federal financial form filed after he was nominated to lead the EPA, Pruitt listed his only income as his attorney general's salary, about $133,000 per year. Under the entry for spouse's income and retirement accounts, he wrote, "None." Pruitt's most recent financial disclosure was due in May, but like many Trump administration officials, he has requested a filing extension.

Putting that position to good use, huh, Scottie P.? Finally feeling the pressure of being a home owner in these financially turbulent times?

Every single new thing I read about this guy makes me hate him even more.

Scott has got to be one of the most position abusive people in recent memory.

just the most egregious, everybody else has been doing the same just not so ridiculously obvious

Well if you're Trumps pick for the EPA there isn't really much else to do besides try to make money

You're head of the EPA and the best you can do is franchise of chick-fil-a?

Corrupt, not smart. 2016 Administration.

Regular Frank and Claire Underwood these two, huh? What's his next grand design, using his proximity to the president to lease a food truck?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/maybe-scott-pruitt-isnt-corrupt-enough/2018/06/06/19cd43b6-69bc-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html Editorial yesterday about how Pruitt is totally lowballing his influence peddling to a used mattress from a Trump hotel and a Chick-fil-A franchise while the Trump family and close associates like Cohen are raking in millions if not tens of millions. Pruitt could be shaking down corporate polluters for tens of millions of dollars — and he’s trying to use his influence to get a deal on a used Trump mattress that costs $1,750 new? He could get so many sweetheart deals from those he regulates that his wife would never have to work again — and he’s using pull so she can sell $3.99 chicken sandwiches? Pruitt’s problem isn’t that he’s corrupt; it’s that he isn’t corrupt enough. He could be thrashing with the big gators in the swamp, but he’s lounging with larvae in a mud puddle. Pruitt should abandon his penny-ante corruption and get rich the way others do in Trump’s Washington.

What's Rick Perry up to these days? He seems like he's trying his hardest to keep himself out of the media.

Everything I've heard about him, which is little, is that he's taken on his responsibilities of overseeing and managing America's nuclear operations, both military and civilian, with sobering maturity. He went into the job with a completely incorrect idea on what the department did, and as soon as he realized he was responsible for keeping the country's nuclear reactors and stockpiles safe he learned his job quick as fuck because the last thing he wants is a meltdown on his watch. Rick Perry is the unsung hero of the Trump cabinet merely for doing his fucking job and not becoming a PR disaster and adjunct clownshow next to the Trump circus.

Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal shilling for an industry the DoE has surprisingly little pervue over to begin with