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Porter did not respond to requests for comment but two sources say he leaked information about Pruitt after Samantha Dravis, his former girlfriend who resigned recently as head of EPA's policy office, leaked information about his assaults on his two former wives to White House Counsel Don McGahn. Press reports have indicated that Dravis leaked the information to the White House counsel's office after finding out that Porter had been having an affair with now-departed White House Communications Director Hope Hicks. The alleged ethical violations that have emerged over the past week include Pruitt's lease of a Capitol Hill townhouse at below-market rates from the wife of an energy industry lobbyist and the agency's awarding two close aides pay raises even after they were rejected by the White House.