Office of Special Advocates sent to President Biden summarizing the findings of several years of EPA investigations into allegations raised by four federal government whistleblowers. The report, written by the EPA’s Criminal Law Enforcement Division, was released Thursday as part of a letter the U.S. Mr Pruitt, who is now running as a Republican for the US Senate in Oklahoma and previously served as the state’s attorney general, did not respond to a request for comment. They ultimately led to his resignation in July 2018.īut until now, an internal EPA report that backed up allegations of misuse of lights and sirens on his government-issued car had never been made public, even though it had been completed a month earlier.

a $43,000 soundproof phone booth inside his office. Reports of this improper use of lights and sirens first became public in 2018, along with other allegations of wrongdoing by Mr Pruitt, including a first-class trip to his home in Oklahoma on government paid flights and improper use of public funds to build. It said “speed up” or “we need to get there faster”, orders that security guards said they found “difficult to disobey”, even though the lights and sirens were only supposed to be used in the event of an emergency. “Can you use that magic button to get us through traffic?” Mr Pruitt would ask members for his security details, according to the report. Pruitt with the lights and sirens going, in the wrong direction in oncoming traffic, to retrieve the dry cleaning from Mr. Among the incidents cited in the report was a 2017 trip in which a special agent drove Mr. Security officers said they knew it was a violation of federal policies and “endangers public safety,” according to the report. WASHINGTON - Scott Pruitt, then in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration, repeatedly pressured his federal security officers to drive at excessive and sometimes dangerous speeds during routine commutes, with sirens and emergency lights on, as he used to run late, according to a federal report released Thursday.

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