The lawyer, politician, and current Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency rented this Capitol Hill condo for just $50 per night, well below market value.
The condo is owned by lobbyist couple, Vicki and Steven Hart. Pruitt paid a total of $6,100 over 6 months. At least half-a-dozen companies with restrictions imposed by the EPA have been lobbied for by the Harts. While renting the condo, Pruitt approved an oil pipeline expansion for Canadian company, Enbridge, for which Steven Hart lobbied on behalf of.
The market average for similar apartments in the Capitol Hill neighborhood run around $5,000 per month or $142 per night through services such as Airbnb.