NOT even his tactical pants could save him in the end. Beset by at least 13 investigations into his alleged grifting and abuse of power—including his office’s expenditure of almost $3,000 on hardwearing pants and polo shirts—Scott Pruitt resigned as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on July 5th.
Washington will be a duller place in his absence—so relentless and uproariously grubby were the scandals his roving eye for a freebie and Napoleonic sense of self-importance kept landing him in. An exhaustive list would be beyond the capacity of this blog. For illustrative purposes, however, in less than 18 months in the job Mr Pruitt was alleged to have spent over $3m on a 24-hour security detail that was three times bigger than his predecessor’s; spent $43,000 on a sound-proof phone booth for his office that was subsequently found to be illegal; spent $5,700 on biometric locks; spent over $100,000 on first-class flights, on the basis that his security would be compromised in economy (allegedly because a fellow...Continue reading
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