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Multiple investigations going on against Scott Pruitt, the EPA boss:

The IG’s office confirmed to Vox that four audits related to Pruitt are underway:

• There is an expanded investigation of the “frequency, cost and extent of the Administrator’s travel” after reports of Pruitt’s penchant for first-class flights and nearly $200,000 in travel expenses.
  
• Pruitt has surrounded himself with an unprecedented 24-hour security detail with as many as 20 members. Newer concerns about the cost Pruitt’s security arrangement were rolled into a previous IG audit started in 2016 looking into overpayments to security detail staff.
  
• Building on the previous audit, the IG is also looking into the ongoing cost of Pruitt’s bodyguards and potential overbilling in how the team recorded their hours.
  
• The IG is also examining Pruitt’s use of administrative hiring under the Safe Drinking Water Act, which allows the EPA to bring on staff without approval from Congress or the White House. The audit includes the report that two close aides to Pruitt received huge raises after the White House declined to grant the pay bumps.
  

There are other audits gaining momentum as well:

• Samantha Dravis, an associate administrator for policy at the EPA who traveled abroad with Pruitt, abruptly resigned earlier this month from her $179,700-a-year job. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) asked the IG last month to verify a report that she did not show up to work for much of the time between November 2017 through January 2018. The IG’s office confirmed to Vox that a review is underway that has not been formally announced.
  
• The IG is also considering whether to investigate Pruitt’s housing arrangements. Pruitt leased a cushy condo close to Capitol Hill last year at the too-good-to-be-true rate of $50 a night, and only for the nights he stayed there. The condo belongs to the wife of a prominent lobbyist who petitioned the EPA on behalf of an energy utility and whose firm represents major oil and gas interests.
  
• House Democrats report that the IG is examining whether Pruitt violated anti-lobbying rules during an April 2017 meeting with the National Mining Association where he encouraged the group to press President Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord.
  

The EPA’s Scott Pruitt is now facing several legal and ethical investigations - Vox

And this isn't even everything, see the article..