The following whistleblower claims were substantiated: The investigations by the EPA, EPA OIG, and Government Accountability Office (GAO) substantiated most of the whistleblowers’ allegations, finding Pruitt and the EPA were responsible for wrongdoing. Additionally, the complaints claimed that the EPA Office of Inspector General (OIG) improperly assumed EPA program operating responsibilities including protective intelligence and counterintelligence functions. Government Accountability Project represents Kevin Chmielewski, one of four EPA employees who made disclosures to the OSC in 2018 alleging that Pruitt engaged in improper and excessive spending of agency funds on travel and security, used his official position for his personal benefit and the benefit of EPA staff that he favored, and endangered public safety. Kerner’s letter to President Biden, the EPA’s report to OSC, the whistleblower’s comments on the EPA’s report, and OSC’s referral letter to the EPA. Today, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) closed its investigation into whistleblower disclosures related to the former Administrator’s alleged wrongdoing during his time at the EPA, and for the first time publicly released Special Counsel Henry J. WASHINGTON – Scott Pruitt, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and current candidate for the United States Senate, resigned from his position in July 2018 after a flurry of whistleblower disclosures, media coverage, and federal and Congressional investigations scrutinized a plethora of allegations detailing his abuses of authority and violations of public trust. Special Counsel Findings Vindicate Government Accountability Project Client Kevin Chmielewski, Whose Whistleblowing Exposed Scott Pruitt’s Corruption The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. They ultimately led to his resignation in July 2018. Pruitt, including first-class travel back to his home in Oklahoma on government-paid flights and improper use of government funds to build a $43,000 soundproof phone booth inside his office. Reports about this improper use of lights and sirens first became public in 2018, along with other assertions of wrongdoing by Mr. He would say “speed it up” or “we need to get there quicker,” orders that the security agents said they found “hard to disobey,” even though the lights and sirens were supposed to be used only in emergencies, it said. Pruitt would ask members of his security detail, the report said. “Can you guys use that magic button to get us through traffic?” Mr. Pruitt with the lights and sirens going, in the wrong direction into oncoming traffic, to pick up Mr.
Among the incidents cited in the report was a 2017 trip in which a special agent drove Mr.
The security officers said they knew this was a violation of federal policies and “endangered public safety,” the report said. WASHINGTON - Scott Pruitt, while 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 on routine trips, with sirens and emergency lights on, because he had a habit of running late, according to a federal report released on Thursday.
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