Early 2017: Pruitt began rent a bedroom in a Washington, D.C. townhouse co-owned with his wife a lobbyist for energy sector clients, J. Steven HART, records show. In particular, HART lobbied for issues related to the export of liquefied natural gas, although a spokesman for HART said his client has no lobby protection of the environment and the Ministry of energy in 2017 or 2018. According to the center for responsive politics, the company cheniere energy Inc. which owned the only active liquefied natural gas for export to the United States in the factory at the time reported, paid by the firm HART is $ 80,000 in 2017.
March 29, 2017: Pruitt security detail broke into the apartment door, believing that Pruitt was unconscious and unresponsive and rescue, a source familiar with the incident told ABC news. It is unclear what led to panic, which caused the reaction, but police records obtained by ABC news show that Capitol police officer called 911 at the behest Pruitt security detail that tried unsuccessfully to contact him by phone and knocking on the building door. Pruitt declined to the doctor, and the police have been filed. The EPA eventually agreed to compensate the Condo owner for damage to door at $ 2,460$ first reported by the newspaper “Washington post”.
May 2017: Pruitt daughter McKenna, who served as a White house Intern, stayed in a two bedroom apartment during the internship, according to two sources familiar with the housing. According to her LinkedIn page, she held the position of clerk in the defender of the White house office from may to August 2017. Vicki HART, who is co-owner of the apartment, said two-lease was only for Pruitt. “If other people use in the bedroom or the living room, I was never told and I never gave him permission to do it,” she said.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APEnvironmental protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt arrived to testify before the Senate Committee on the environment on Capitol hill in Washington, Jan. 30, 2018.
August 2017: Pruitt moved to a new place of residence.
December 2017: Pruitt went to Morocco, where according to the EPA press release, the liquefied natural gas export was a subject of discussion. Press Secretary, cheniere energy Rachel Carmichael told ABC news that the company has terminated its relationship with the firm HART in December 2017.
29 Mar 2018: ABC news first reported details of the agreement, raising questions about whether Pruitt made the wrong gift from a lobbyist tied to energy companies, whose business may be affected by regulatory decisions of the EPA Agency Pruitt recently started. EPA officials trying to explain the lease drafted the original ethics reverse the decision of the senior ethics official of the Agency-Fugh, saying that she found housing agreement is valid and that it was the usual deal with a personal friend.
March 29, 2018: on the same day, for the protection of the environment showed to Bloomberg news cancelled checks detail a six-Pruitt payments made to the limited liability Corporation, which co-owner is J. Steven HART’s wife Vicki from March to September 2017. According to Bloomberg, the source compared the rent “-style mechanism,” in which he was charged $50 per night, although the Villa is in a great location less than a block from the Capitol complex and other apartments, rented out as much as $5,000 per month, according to a source familiar with the neighboring lease.
Andrew Harnik/APThe Capitol hill Condo building where the administrator of the Agency for environmental protection Scott Pruitt stayed in Washington, on March 30, 2018.
30 Mar 2018: district of Columbia Department of consumer and regulatory Affairs wrote on Twitter that their office will investigate whether fully legally rented. Bureau staff on ethics issues, EPA met with staff of the office of public Affairs EPA to discuss this issue and then published a new statement on ethics. “Concluding a lease was in compliance with the Federal ethics rules regarding gifts and the use of property in accordance with the lease, is not a gift, as defined in these rules,” said EPA Memorandum, signed this time Kevin Minoli S., which is defined as “the authorized Agency ethics official” for the EPA.
1 April 2018: Chris Christie, ABC news, author and former Governor of the state of new Jersey, told ABC news chief anchor George Stephanopoulos on “this week” that the trump of the transition team responsible for verifying Pruitt was “brutally unprofessional” and that Pruitt is likely to face trouble after the report. “I don’t know how you survive in it,” he said. But the President of trump’s friend, Christopher ruddy, ABC news author and founder and CEO of the news and opinion website Newsmax suggested Pruitt might weather the storm: “the President looks very holistically at their entire work and I think that it will apply the same formula Scott Pruitt.”
April 2, 2018: ABC news reported that the well-known expert on ethics has raised serious concerns about the propriety of retroactive ethics comments. “It is the opinion of ethics is highly unusual and problematic in many respects,” said Noah Bookbinder, Executive Director of citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan public advocacy group.
Sourse: abcnews.go.com
