By Tom Kludt
In a statement released (click here) Wednesday, a spokesperson for MSNBC said that Hewitt "was given a verbal warning as such activity is a violation of our standards."
The revelation of a request for a meeting between Pruitt and Hewitt's law firm came earlier this week after a cache of internal emails was released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the environmental group The Sierra Club.
In one of the correspondences from September, first reported by Politico, the MSNBC host asked Pruitt for a meeting with lawyers from Hewitt's firm who represent a water district that sought federal help to clean up a toxic waste site in Orange County, California, where Hewitt lives.
Weeks later, the site was placed on Pruitt's list of areas designated for "immediate and intense" action.
Hewitt did not respond to a request for comment....
It appears to me he is up to his neck in corruption. I believe this is the aquafer involved in corruption. While it has issues, it is not a Superfund Site that effects the lives of people or livestock.
,,,3.3.3 RESOURCES There is no evidence that groundwater within the target distance limit is used for commercial irrigation, livestock, food preparation, aquaculture, or supply for a major or designated water recreation area (Ref. 1, Section 3.3.3). In addition, scoring the Resources Factor Value would not affect the listing decision. Resources Factor Value: 0...
US EPA Director Andrew Wheeler should be all over this thing along with a couple of Inspector Generals.
May 7, 2018
By Emily Holden and Anthony Adragna
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt (click here) placed a polluted California area on his personal priority list of Superfund sites targeted for “immediate and intense” action after conservative radio and television host Hugh Hewitt brokered a meeting between him and lawyers for the water district that was seeking federal help to clean up the polluted Orange County site.
The previously unreported meeting, which was documented in emails released by EPA under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Sierra Club, showed Pruitt’s staff reacting quickly to the request last September by Hewitt, who has been one of Pruitt’s staunchest defenders amid a raft of ethics controversies around his expensive travel, security team spending and a cheap Washington condo rental from a lobbyist....
