Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had a top aide contact Republican backers last year to find his wife a job, according to a new report.
The aide’s efforts landed Marlyn Pruitt a job with a conservative political group that had been a supporter of Pruitt for years, the Washington Post reported Wednesday morning.
The report cited multiple individuals familiar with the matter.
The report follows another one last week that Pruitt tapped a former top aide, Sydney Hupp, to arrange a call with Chick-fil-A to discuss his wife becoming a franchise owner. That report spurred Democrats to ask the FBI to examine the potential for criminal charges in using federal resources for personal enrichment.
The new report shows that Pruitt tasked Samantha Dravis, who was serving as associate administrator for the EPA’s Office of Policy, to find work for his wife.
Doug Deason, a Trump donor, said he could not hire Marlyn Pruitt because of a conflict of interest. But Pruitt continued to press him for his help in finding other opportunities, the newspaper reported.
Marlyn eventually found a temporary gig with the Judicial Crisis Network, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
The group approved the onetime school nurse “temporarily as an independent contractor,” the newspaper reported. However, it did not disclose via email how long she worked there or how much she was paid.
The spokesman said the position was a result of the group receiving her resume from Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, which has financial ties with the group.
