UPDATED: Scott Pruitt's Embattled Security Chief Resigns
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Matt Shuham May 1, 2018 11:28 am
The former Secret Service agent who led EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's multimillion-dollar, 24/7 security detail while also leading his own private security firm resigned Monday,
he told ABC News.
"All of this press is taking a toll on my family. I decided to move on and it's been an honor to serve," Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta told ABC News. He told the network he would "fully cooperate" with lawmakers probing the EPA, starting with an interview with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. And so ended the bizarre and twisting narrative of perhaps Pruitt's most mysterious aide.
Before leading the administrator's detail, Perrotta worked on the side for the Trump-friendly publisher American Media Inc. during the 2016 election. Led by David J. Pecker, the National Enquirer publisher is now known for the tabloid practice of "catch and kill" -- that is, buying and burying stories which Trump, it so happens, benefitted from having buried. Perrotta also published a memoir in 2016 detailing his "battle with the New York Mafia!"
CBS News reported last month that Perrotta replaced Pruitt's existing chief of security, Eric Weese, two weeks after Weese advised Pruitt that his motorcade's sirens should only be used in emergencies, rather than to cut through Washington, D.C. traffic, as Pruitt wanted.
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UPDATE:
MAY 1, 2018 / 11:51 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Two top U.S. EPA staffers resign amid ethics probes
Valerie Volcovici
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two high-level Environmental Protection Agency employees whose names have come up in investigations of Administrator Scott Pruitt's ethics and travel have resigned from the agency, the EPA confirmed on Tuesday.
Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, a former Secret Service agent who served as the head of Pruitt's security team, resigned on Monday but said he will continue to cooperate in a U.S. House of Representatives investigation of his role in costly decisions around Pruitt's security. ABC News first reported the resignation on Tuesday.
Albert "Kell" Kelly, who ran the agency's Superfund cleanup program, also announced his resignation, the EPA confirmed. Kelly was barred by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from working at any U.S. financial institution after unspecified violations while working at a bank in Oklahoma.
Lawmakers last week grilled Pruitt in back-to-back hearings on reports of ethics violations, excessive spending on travel and security, close industry ties and the reassignment of agency whistleblowers who flagged concerns about high spending.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-ethics/two-top-us-epa-staffers-resign-amid-ongoing-ethics-probes-idUSKBN1I23Y0
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to put my head between my legs and kiss my Country goodbye - and as a nominally normal voting adult? I am MUCH more scared now than my 8-year-old butt was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We were at Cape Canaveral.
The OP's points come through loud and clear. (Thank you, DonViejo.) Unfortunately, the entire shitload of "situations" read like an evil crossbreeding of Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, Mario Puzo, and David Baldacci. Treason, collusion, obstruction of justice, perjury, felony assaults, felony theft, sexual deviancy, and blatant lies that are not screamed LOUDLY by the very diminished 4th Estate - add your own favorite to the list and tell me it will be alright.....LOL! (That was a gallows laugh, though I know DUers got it.)
What I believe we have, as occupiers of ALL 3 BRANCHES (those with an R after their names) of our government is nothing less than pure EVIL...Add in the "1%", the rest of the Republican Party, the "alt-right", the Neo-Nazis, the "sovereign citizens", the NRA, the KKK, and the just plain brainwashed, undereducated and deliberately illerate Faux News and Limbaugh et. al. worshippers, the gun fanatics, the "domestic terrorists", and the very numerous, UNTAXED, fanatical "Christian" churches, sects, cults, etc..... There's a pretty good reason for normal citizens to be very, very frightened. I won't attempt to understand the real fear our non-citizens must live with.
I think I want off this planet.
My rant is now off dear friends. It can be hard being isolated physically, but I chose it. Seeing this great Nation being sucked into the well-planned Repuke quagmire? I'll do everything I possibly can to change us back to the UNITED STATES. AND I WILL KEEP ON UNTIL I AM UNABLE.
I love every single one of you muckraking hellraisers. Let's RESIST!!
