Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. They ultimately led to his resignation in July 2018. 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. Reports about this improper use of lights and sirens first became public in 2018, along with other assertions of wrongdoing by Mr. He would say “speed it up” or “we need to get there quicker,” orders that the security agents said they found “hard to disobey,” even though the lights and sirens were supposed to be used only in emergencies, it said. Pruitt would ask members of his security detail, the report said. “Can you guys use that magic button to get us through traffic?” Mr. Pruitt with the lights and sirens going, in the wrong direction into oncoming traffic, to pick up Mr. Among the incidents cited in the report was a 2017 trip in which a special agent drove Mr.
The security officers said they knew this was a violation of federal policies and “endangered public safety,” the report said. WASHINGTON - 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.
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