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Reports about this improper use of lights and sirens first became public in 2018, along with other assertions of wrongdoing by Mr. 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. They ultimately led to his resignation in July 2018.īut until now, an internal E.P.A. report that substantiated the allegations about the abusive use of lights and sirens on his government-issued car had never been made public, even though it was completed a month before Mr.

Pruitt, who is now running as a Republican for the United States Senate in Oklahoma and previously served as the state’s attorney general, did not respond to a request for comment. The report, by the E.P.A.’s criminal enforcement division, was released on Thursday as part of a letter the United States Office of Special Counsel sent to President Biden summarizing findings from several years of investigations by the E.P.A. into allegations raised by four federal government whistle-blowers. Pruitt “engaged in improper and excessive spending of agency funds on travel and security used his official position for his personal benefit and the personal benefit of certain E.P.A.

Scott endangered public forcing his drivers