Executive Protection And Secure Transportation Podcast

The Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News for Wednesday, September 5th, 2018   In Executive Protection News NBC News Scott Pruitt's $3.5 million, 24/7 security detail not justified, says EPA watchdog Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's use of around-the-clock security detail that cost taxpayers more than $3.5 million was not justified and was more than twice as expensive as his predecessor's, according to a new report by the Environmental Protection Agency's Inspector General. Pruitt resigned from the EPA effective July 6 after facing a barrage of investigations and audits. The inspector general found the decision to assign a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week security detail to protect Pruitt was made by the Trump transition team before the administrator even started the job. The decision was supposed to be re-evaluated two weeks after Pruitt arrived but the IG says that never happened. It also cost 110 percent more than the security protection given to Pruitt's predecessor, Gina McCarthy, during a