Arn Pearson, Salon:
Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s embattled EPA administrator, finds himself under attack this week after news broke that he had rented a Washington townhouse at below-market rates from the wife of a lobbyist who represents major fossil fuel companies. That was not the first time Pruitt has exercised questionable judgment around a property transaction, according to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit watchdog group.
In 2011, Pruitt and his wife, Margaret, bought a property in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just days before a court ruled that it had been fraudulently transferred by a Las Vegas developer who was on the hook for a $3.6 million loan default. Pruitt, who was then Oklahoma attorney general, apparently flipped the property for a $70,000 profit four months later, selling it to a dummy corporation set up by a major campaign contributor, Kevin Hern.
Money laundering seems to be the general theme. And not just for the Trump-Russia thing, but for a lot of shit that's been going on just under the surface in this little game of Fuck-Your-Buddy. It goes a long way to explain a few things about how some of these guys finance their campaigns, and it could be all the explanation we need for why so many Congress Critters are so reluctant to call any of it out, which would then explain why they're not jumping up and down trying to move on impeachment - there's a shitload of tracks to cover first.
If everybody's guilty, then nobody can blame anybody; so nobody can be held accountable.
