orchestrated by the head of the federalist society, and included dinner at a five-star hotel with cardinal george peel, who has been under investigation for multiple investigations of child sexual assault. the cardinal is a climate denier, so maybe that makes it all okay for pruitt. a planned trip to australia was organized by a consultant and former lobbyist for foreign governments. another planned trip to israel appears to have been at least in part scheduled to allow him to promote a water purification company recommended by republican megadonor sheldon adelson. reports say that the pruitt actually gave his staff a bucket list of places he wants to visit at public expense and told them to arrange pretexts for his travels. a lot of the cost of these trips is pruitt's security detail. that takes us into investigations two and three and four, which stem from administrator pruitt's over-the-top spending on security measures. the environmental protection agency inspector general and the house oversight committee are both investigating this spending, including almost $3 million pruitt has spent on his 24