Hiring For Pruitt Security Detail Seen As Drain On Enforcement Resources

摘要

A retired EPA enforcement officer says the agency's move to add security staff for Administrator Scott Pruitt's protection detail is a "shell game" that will drain at least $2 million from the enforcement office, while a current career official says the move will free up criminal investigators who were temporarily transferred to the detail. Michael Hubbard, who served as the special agent in charge of EPA Region 1 's criminal investigations office in Boston before retiring in 2013, said in an Oct. 25 interview with Inside EPA that the move to hire full-time personnel for Pruitt's security detail - thereby allowing the criminal investigators to return to their enforcement duties - "is obviously what I would term a shell game" rather than a true boost to EPA's enforcement program.