Posted on 03/29/2018 11:18:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For much of his first year in Washington, President Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt occupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist, property records from 2017 show.
Neither the EPA nor the lobbyist, J. Steven Hart, would say how much Pruitt paid to live at the prime Capitol Hill address, though Hart said he believed it to be the market rate. The price tag on Pruitt’s rental arrangement is one key question when determining if it constitutes an improper gift, ethics experts told ABC News.
Hart confirmed to ABC News in a brief interview that Pruitt had lived in the flat, which is owned by a limited liability company that links to an address listed to Hart and his wife Vicki Hart, a lobbyist with expertise in the healthcare arena. Steven Hart said Vicki Hart co-owns the condo. He said his wife was not the majority owner, but would not identify her partners.
“I have no ownership interest,” he said. “Obviously, I know the owners.”
Vicki Hart does no lobbying involving the EPA, her husband said.
EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox declined to answer questions about the arrangement.
Vicki Hart reached on her cell phone, said she would call back to discuss the matter but never did.
Steven Hart declined to address details of the rental agreement, saying it was a private matter and up to Pruitt to decide whether they should be made public.
The White House has not responded to a request for comment from ABC News.
ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Ali Dukakis contributed to this report.
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Call me when they even remotely question Barry Sotero’s corruption. Until then, they can FO.
I am sure ABC “News” would have no problem if an EPA Administrator was a member of the Audubon Society......
The only cabinet problem that Trump has is his rat bastard of an AG, Jeff Sessions. If magoo and his deep-state coup co-conspirators, rosenstein & mueller, are not removed ASAP nothing else will matter.
Time is a luxury we don’t have.
Here's how I read their report:
"Iffa, coulda', woulda', shoulda' but didn't. Yet. Maybe."
And, "Oh by the way, we have the exclusive on this exclusive report."
Yes, he did. And when I commented on it at the ABC story site, the libs got all upset saying I was living in the past. LOL! Also reminded them of Charlie Rangel’s four rent-stabilized apartments too, plus his failure to report rent on his Dominican Casita, and the fact that he’d left his Mercedes parked in the House parking garage for five years, despite the rule that you’re only allowed to keep a car there a total of 45 days in a row. You know the libs...they can’t stand being given examples of the ethics violations of their beloved leaders. The rules are for everyone else but them.
No one cares, since he paid market value. All he has to do is make the contract public.
Notice the pattern here?
The MSM propaganda wing of the socialist-democrats isn’t attacking President Trump directly.
Instead, they’re picking off the people under him, one at a time, in an attempt to isolate him, and make any association with him toxic and equivalent to political and career suicide.
Pretty insidious tactic, and one that the socialist-democrats seem to be employing successfully.
OMG, he lived in a condo!?!
So I noticed the name Ali Dukakis at the end of the posting and wondered if she is a relative to Michael. Could not find a thing BUT a name kept popping up in my search, John Dukakis.
Not to get off topic but I didn’t know this about John:
Family Life
Born John Chaffetz in San Diego, California, he was raised in Boston, Massachusetts by his mother Kitty Dukakis and his stepfather Michael Dukakis. His half-brother, Jason Chaffetz, served as a Republican United States Representative from Utah.
Just thought many of you might find that interesting.
Nothingburger.
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