Before Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt could install a secure, soundproof phone booth in his office last fall, officials had to create space for the addition in a nearby ...

WASHINGTON — The nearly $43,000 soundproof phone booth Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had installed in his office last year violated federal spending laws, the Government ...

(CNN)-- The $43,000 purchase of a soundproof booth for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's office violated federal law, the Government Accountability Office concluded Monday.

Expenses including more than $43,000 to install “a soundproof privacy booth” ran afoul of appropriations law, EPA now says. EPA dropped its Trump-era defense of a soundproof booth built for Scott ...

The EPA chief’s much mocked $43,000 “cone of silence” — a soundproof phone booth he ordered installed in his office — violated federal law governing how taxpayers’ money could be spent, a new report ...

WASHINGTON – Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday defended his frequent taxpayer-funded travel and his purchase of a custom soundproof communications booth for his office, ...

A government watchdog will examine whether the head of the EPA misused taxpayer money by purchasing a soundproof booth for making private phone calls from his office. In this June 2, 2017 file photo, ...

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WASHINGTON - Before Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt could install a secure, soundproof phone booth in his office last fall, officials had to create space for the addition in ...

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