Scott Pruitt Has Spent a Total of $4.6 Million on Security, New Disclosures Show -- Including $1,500

[demmiblue]

Scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has now spent more than $4.6 million from public coffers on security, according to documents obtained by The Intercept and Documented under the Freedom of Information Act. The amount represents a $1.1 million increase from Pruitt’s total security costs as released in another disclosure just a month ago.

Pruitt’s high spending on security has become the subject of mounting criticism and a host of official investigations: Several EPA inspector general investigations have been opened, as well as an ongoing investigation by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee.

Records released under the Freedom of Information Act list expenditures totaling $288,610 on a range of security-related items. The EPA, according to three expense line items for April, spent a total of $2,749.62 on “tactical pants” and “tactical polos.”

Since last year, shortly after his Senate confirmation, Pruitt’s office began purchasing security-related items, including multiple vehicle leases, over $80,000 worth of radios, $700 in shoulder holsters for the radios, and a kit to break down doors, among other purchases.

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/20/scott-pruitt-epa-security-total-expenses-foia/

[Achilleaze]

1. Fear is a core republican "value"

They live and breathe fear. They really have no place in the Home of the Brave, as their ignoble misleader, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, makes plain each day.

Pruitt is a quivering, squandering, quisling mass of corrupt republican "values."