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Scott Pruitt's Other Email Account
By Nick Surgey
Climate, Featured Investigations, RAGA
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told the US Senate during his confirmation hearing that he only had one official email account while Attorney General of Oklahoma. Emails obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) through an Oklahoma public records request show he actually had a second undisclosed email account. The two accounts that he used were scott.pruitt@oag.ok.gov and esp@oag.ok.gov. ESP are Scott Pruitt's initials, his first name is Edward. Below are the emails that CMD obtained from that previously unknown "esp" account.
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About Nick Surgey
Nick Surgey is an investigative reporter and the co-director of Documented, a watchdog group that investigates how corporations manipulate public policy. His research has been widely featured, including by The Guardian, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Colbert Report. Nick was previously director of research at the Center for Media and Democracy, and prior to that, staff counsel at Common Cause, where he led the research and legal work on the group's investigation into the American Legislative Exchange Council and its Supreme Court Ethics project.
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Carol Kroll
June 15th, 2017 at 5:33 PM (CDT)
Excellent article! Okay if I share this on Facebook? And if okay, may I use your name (or if not, that's okay).