"The EPA administrator has said he “didn’t know” about unusual salary bumps given to a pair of trusted aides, but a message from one of those staffers claims otherwise."

"An email that suggests Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt personally signed off on a controversial pay raise for a favored aide last month is roiling the agency.

In the last few days, top staffers became aware of an email exchange between one of two aides who received such a raise and the agency’s human resources division. In mid-March, Sarah Greenwalt, senior counsel to the administrator, wrote to HR in an attempt to confirm that her pay raise of $56,765 was being processed. Greenwalt “definitively stated that Pruitt approves and was supportive of her getting a raise,” according to an administration official who has seen the email chain.

A second administration official confirmed the exchange. The email “essentially says, ‘The administrator said that I should get this raise,’” the official told me. Both spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the private correspondence."

Elaina Plott reports for the Atlantic April 9, 2018. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"A New Call For Investigating Pruitt — After Trump Already Offered His Verdict" (Washington Post) [3]

"EPA Chief Of Staff Takes Responsibility For Raises Given To Pruitt Aides" (Politico) [4]

"At Least 5 Probes Underway Into EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s Conduct" (PBS News Hour) [5]