ENERGY/ETHICS/RICK PERRY: “U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry took a chartered jet to Ohio last week, according to an airport management company, the day before fellow Cabinet member Tom Price resigned over his use of private charter flights for government business.
Perry took the private plane from Hazleton Regional Airport in Pennsylvania to the Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport in southern Ohio on Sept. 28, PMH Aviation, the company that runs the Portsmouth airport, said on Wednesday [10-4-17]. The purpose of his trip was to visit a uranium facility in Piketon, Ohio, according to the Energy Department.
A receptionist at the company declined to answer questions about the cost of the flight.
The only private jet to land at Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport last Thursday belonged to Dixie Capital Corp, a Richmond, Virginia-based charter company, according to data from the Flightaware website. Dixie confirmed it owned the plane, but declined to comment on Perry or say how much the trip cost.
A spokeswoman for Perry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
-Emily Flitter, “Energy secretary took charter flight day before Price resigned,” Reuters, Oct. 4, 2017 04:20pm