Ex-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt pressured his personal security detail to speed, use sirens, and drive dangerously to make up for his chronic lateness to events, according to a 2018 internal report. Pruitt resigned his post in July 2018 after a slew of ethics scandals and official investigations into his misuse of government resources.
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Trump EPA chief ordered drivers to speed when running late, says internal report
Then-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt instructed his security detail to drive above the speed limit to make appointments, sometimes to the point of “endanger[ing] pu…
Trump EPA chief Pruitt endangered public safety by speeding, federal agents say
Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt frequently "‘endangered public safety" by telling his security detail to drive above the speed limit due to running late to meetings frequently, according to a report released Thursday.
“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,” the New York Times reports.“The security officers said they knew this was a violation of feder…