Scott Pruitt is certainly enjoying his newfound access to federal funds, even more than most of Donald Trump's other cabinet appointments. From bringing a massive security detail on family vacations to taking first class flights to avoid angry commoners to a potentially illegal $43,000 private phone booth, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency is racking up scandals.

This past week saw a deluge of bad news for Pruitt, mostly focused on all the exorbitant travel he's done since his appointment. The New York Times found that Pruitt enlisted a lobbyist to plan his December 2017 trip to Morocco—shortly after the trip, the Moroccan government hired the lobbyist for $40,000 a month. And late Thursday night, the Washington Post reported that Pruitt has been actively using his office for travel plans, often picking the destination first and then finding a reason to go there:

After taking office last year, Pruitt drew up a list of at least a dozen countries he hoped to visit and urged aides to help him find official reasons to travel, according to four people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal agency deliberations. Pruitt then enlisted well-connected friends and political allies to help make the trips happen.

Those well-connected friends and political allies then got perks from Pruitt, like when he tried to invite Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society, to join him in an environmental policy meeting with Vatican officials in Rome. And soon after taking office, he told his aides that a trip to Israel was his highest priority, which he justified thanks to help from Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson. The Post goes on:

“This is the problem with Pruitt,” said Virginia Canter, executive branch ethics counsel for the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “He’s basically acting as a lobbyist for all of his friends.”

Unsurprisingly, Pruitt seems to have been using his official positions as one big spa package well before he joined the Trump administration. Early Friday morning, Politico released a story claiming that during his time as Oklahoma attorney general, Pruitt multiple times reimbursed himself for campaign expenses. And he did it in such a deliberately vague way that it's hard to discern if they're legal or not. Per Politico: