The trouble with ethics
Rather than getting his own place in D.C., EPA administrator Scott Pruitt for six months in 2017 lived in a prime real estate condo belonging to the wife of a top environmental and energy lobbyist, J. Steven Hart.
And yes, Hart lobbies for firms that have business and are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Hart’s wife, health care lobbyist Vicki Hart, told reporters that Pruitt paid $50 a night for one bedroom – on nights when he stayed there. But Hart said she was unaware that Pruitt’s adult daughter also lived at the condo in the second bedroom during a Washington internship.
“The rental agreement was with Scott Pruitt,” Vicki Hart told ABC News. “If other people were using the bedroom or the living quarters, I was never told, and I never gave him permission to do that.”