Koch Industries spent $3.1 million in the first three months of the Trump administration, largely to ensure confirmation of Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By July 2018, more than sixteen federal inquiries were pending into Pruitt’s mismanagement and corruption.
But Pruitt was just the first in a long line of industry-friendly, incompetent, and destructive agency heads put in place by the Trump administration in its effort to dismantle the federal government’s protective edifice.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke faced eighteen separate federal inquiries and was fired.
Now both Pruitt and Zinke, having been drummed out of public office, are making comebacks.
Pruitt is running for U.S. Senate in Oklahoma.
And just last week, Zinke won the Republican primary for Congress from Montana’s first congressional district.
— source corporatecrimereporter.com | Jul 18, 2022