Scott Pruitt's $25,000 soundproof phone booth? It actually cost more like $43,000.
Source: The Washington Post
By Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin March 14 at 8:00 AM
Before Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt could install a secure, soundproof phone booth in his office last fall, officials had to create space for the addition in a nearby closet area.
Those preparations didnt come cheap.
The agency paid a Virginia firm $7,978 to remove closed-circuit television equipment to make room for the booth, according to a federal database. Officials hired another contractor to pour 55 square feet of concrete more than two feet thick, at a cost of $3,470, according to invoices released under a public records request by the watchdog group American Oversight. Other workers installed a drop ceiling for $3,361, while still others patched and painted the small area for $3,350, records show.
In total, the EPA appears to have spent more than $18,000 on the prep work, readying the space for a $25,000 soundproof booth that has brought Pruitt a wave of criticism and official scrutiny. The total cost for the project now appears to be closer to $43,000.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/03/14/scott-pruitts-25000-soundproof-phone-booth-it-actually-cost-more-like-43000
Zoonart
(11,887 posts)NEEDS a sound proof booth? He. is a public servant in the EPA...he. is not a super spy... oh wait......
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Thanks for posting!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Marcuse
(7,530 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Canoe52
(2,949 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)The fact that he even feels that he NEEDS something like this is the biggest obscenity of all.
Docreed2003
(16,883 posts)What is he doing that he needs all of these expensive security measures?
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)in exchange for favorable legislation and/or rolling back regulations. Can't have people listening in to that.
Docreed2003
(16,883 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)a room than using 2 feet of concrete?
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Then line the insides with anechoic foam.
Effective and cost efficient.
magicarpet
(14,187 posts).... From the Kochs, the Mercers, and the CEOs of chemical companies and big industry but he does not what these insider deals to become public. The EPA will be decimated and gutted so the Fascist capitalists can dump toxic chemicals near and far while exploding their profits. Privatize the profits - socialize the costs of doing business. Spill as many of your business operational costs into someone else's lap - this is how toxic Super Fund Sites are made - then the US taxpayer gets stuck with the toxic chemicals clean up costs.
magicarpet
(14,187 posts)..... to clean up. Playing a shell game of who is the responsible owner so he and his son can avoid responsibility to clean up a toxic mess created by them.
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Chemical containers at the Titan Atlas Manufacturing site in North Charleston, S.C. President Trumps eldest son helped start the company in 2010. It failed two years later.CreditKate Thornton for The New York Times
By Barry Meier
Feb. 7, 2017
South Carolina regulators on Tuesday rejected an effort by the Trump Organization to limit its environmental cleanup liabilities at an industrial site once owned by President Trumps eldest son.
The decision is a rebuke of the Trump Organization and could result in millions of dollars in added costs for the company. It followed a refusal by the organization to provide regulators with required information about business ......
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