Washington • A top government ethics official wants the Environmental Protection Agency to address any violations linked to Administrator Scott Pruitt's spending habits, his condo lease from a lobbyist and his personnel decisions.
In a letter dated Friday and released Monday, David Apol, the acting director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, took the atypical step of telling EPA officials that several recent ethics questions deserve further scrutiny. "Public trust demands that all employees act in the public interest, and free from any actual or perceived conflicts," he wrote to Kevin Minoli, the EPA's principal deputy general counsel and the agency's top ethics official.