IIRC, John Beale, the EPA employee who falsified timesheets and claimed to be working on a "CIA detail", was in former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy's direct supervisory chain at the time. Funny how no comments were then heard from the agency's chief ethics official, huh?
New York Times: Showing 587 results for Scott Pruitt between 11/10/2016 to 07/05/2018
https://www.nytimes.com/search?endDate=20180705&query=Scott%20Pruitt&sort=newest&startDate=20161110
20 Jun: Washington Examiner: Jim Inhofe ‘embarrassed’ he doubted Scott Pruitt on ethics scandals
by John Siciliano
Sen. Jim Inhofe, a big supporter of Scott Pruitt, defended the Environmental Protection Agency administrator Wednesday, blaming everyone from the media to billionaire Trump opponent Tom Steyer for ginning up a fervor over the EPA chief’s ethical missteps that are under multiple investigations...
Inhofe was “getting concerned” about the media reports, but after the “face-to-face” meeting, “I’m a little embarrassed that I was starting to doubt him in some areas where he shouldn’t have been doubted,” he told reporters Wednesday morning in his office...
First, he blamed billionaire environmentalist Steyer for instigating the attack through a virtually never-ending supply of money to run attack campaigns.
“Here’s a man with unlimited funds to spread an extreme liberal agenda,” Inhofe said. He said the anti-Pruitt campaign wasn’t being run directly by Steyer, but through his funding of the American Bridge PAC...
The group Occupy Wall Street this week published Pruitt’s home address in Tulsa, which Inhofe said constituted taking “a pitchfork to it” and invading his private space...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/jim-inhofe-embarrassed-he-doubted-scott-pruitt-on-ethics-scandals
the attacks will continue, because there are trillions of dollars at stake in the globull warming scam:
5 Jul: Quartz: Scandal-plagued EPA head Scott Pruitt has been replaced by a coal lobbyist
By Heather Timmons
Pruitt’s replacement, Andrew Wheeler, is a former coal industry lobbyist with Faegre Baker Daniels who spent nearly a decade trying to get Congress to pass industry friendly laws. He also served as the vice president of the Washington Coal Club, a group of businessmen who meets monthly on Capitol Hill. Previously, Wheeler served as an aide to Republican senator James Inhofe from Oklahoma, who once presented a snowball on the Senate floor in an attempt to prove that climate change was a hoax...
https://qz.com/1322131/andrew-wheeler-coal-lobbyist-replaces-scott-pruitt-as-head-of-epa/