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Scott Pruitt Faces Calls For Yet Another Investigation Over ‘Secret’ Calendars
Washington,
July 5, 2018
Huff Post
In a letter released Thursday morning, Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) asked the EPA Inspector General to open an investigation to determine whether the calendars, revealed this week in a CNN report, violated the Federal Records Act. “Willful concealment or destruction of such records is a federal crime carrying penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment,” they wrote. The investigation would be the 19th federal probe into Pruitt’s activities this year alone, and the 12th from the EPA’s beleaguered internal watchdog. The letter marks a new milestone in the five-month series of ethical and legal scandals that has become a fiasco, even by Trump administration’s unconventional standards. |