Soundproof Booth Cannot 'Hide Illegal Actions' as GAO Probe Says Pruitt Violated Federal Law

As pressure on EPA chief Scott Pruitt to resign mounts amid his ever-growing list of scandals, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded on Monday that the $43,000 soundproof phone booth Pruitt had installed in his office last year at the taxpayer’s expense violated federal spending laws.

“Not even Scott Pruitt’s secure phone booth can hide his illegal actions.”
—Michael Brune, Sierra ClubFederal law prohibits goverment agencies from dishing out more than $5,000 to “furnish, redecorate, purchase furniture for, or make improvements for the office of a presidential appointee during the period of appointment without prior notification to the appropriations committees of Congress.”

Because the EPA failed to inform Congress about the soundproof booth, the agency “used its appropriations in a manner specifically prohibited by law,” the GAO concluded in an eight-page report made public on Monday.

Pruitt insisted that the “privacy” booth was necessary for him to “make and receive calls to discuss sensitive information.”

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