reporter at bloomberg news. a great piece of reporting. so you ve got this it looks like a sweetheart deal, not a fair market deal that the administrator is taking advantage of. then on the other side, there s business that the lobbyist in question has before the epa that connects to a trip he took to morocco, is that right. right to some degree. one of the lobbyist clients is shaneer north korea, really the first company that was exporting liquefied natural gas out of the united states and last december, pruett took a trip to morocco to it out the benefits of u.s. liquefied natural gas. it s important to note the will you beist in question has said he didn t actually lobby epa and the energy department is the agency that is controls l & g exports. that s one of the reasons the trip was curious because it was a little odd to see administrator pruett being the ambassador for natural gas. just to be clear, the argument is look, this isn t in
trip was curious because it was a little odd to see administrator pruitt being the ambassador for natural gas. just to be clear, the argument is look, this isn t in the upa s purview. it s an energy issue. why is he taking the trip to morocco to extol the virtue of american liquid natural gas? that s a real question that we still don t have a good answer to. maybe it has something to do with this or something to do with his general interest in domestic oil and gas. certainly pruitt is kind of on the president s front lines to embrace american energy. there s a memo epa from a deputy general counsel to the general counsel that beak exonerates pruitt and says it s fair market value and as such, everything is on the up and up. the thing odd about this is the memo is dated today. right. so one of the interesting things about the story, there was no prairie view or indications there was any review of this living arrangement. perhaps the administrator never thought it was a problem o