As has become an often-repeated theme, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is again being accused of using his post for personal and familial profit, this time by contacting a Virginia lawmaker to get his daughter into the University of Virginia law school and using his aides to help get her a White House internship.
According to a Friday New York Times report, Pruitt contacted former speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates William Howell seeking help in getting his daughter, McKenna, into UVA law. Howell wrote a letter to the dean on her behalf and she was accepted.
A Pruitt spokesperson told the Times that the two were longtime friends and that “letters of recommendation are normal process for an application to law school.”
In a similar incident, at least three EPA aides were told to help get McKenna a White House internship. Kevin Chmielewski, Pruitt’s former deputy chief of staff for operations, said that Pruitt told them to “see what they could do” about getting her the internship, and that they were asked to complete tasks completely outside of their professional purview all the time. McKenna did get the internship.
According to the New York Times, EPA aides were also deployed to set up calls with his old donors in Oklahoma and secure tickets to the Rose Bowl, in addition to many other sporting events.
Pruitt, amazingly, still retains President Donald Trump’s support despite the dozens of federal ethics investigations his actions have launched—though on Friday, Trump did concede that he is “not happy about certain things” Pruitt has done.
Can someone please explain to me why this guy still has a job?
UVA is very competitive. I don’t envy her once this story gets traction
What a dick. (for all the obvious reasons) but now his daughter has to live the rest of her life being tarred, fairly or not, as someone who couldn’t get into law school without her dad’s help. I’m not even being sarcastic. This guy can’t even parent without being corrupt.
Because Pruitt is the de facto darling of the Koch Bros, who indirectly (local/regional support) yet po$itively supported Tramp’s election with mega-million$. Tramp is their “useful idiot” to put their preferred agent in place and is not desirous of upsetting the Kochs. (This is a reflection of the power that real billionaires have over a faux-billionaire.)
What next? He got his dog a job as taster at Cargill Meat Solutions, his kitty the top spot on Youtube cat videos, and an Olympic sized swimming pool for his pet goldfish? He really can’t be this impotent, can he?? That dreaded time of new onset Viagra-resistance is upon us.