Scott Pruitt faced at least 10 new scandals in just the past four weeks, stretching the Environmental Protection Agency administrators chaotic streak of corruption accusations into a third straight month.

On Tuesday, newly released internal emails showed Pruitt had ordered an aide to set up a call with the chairman of Chick-fil-A to discuss the administrators wife, Marlyn Pruitt, becoming a franchisee of the growing fast-food chain. Pruitt never completed the application, but the call raised concerns about the misuse of public office, Don Fox, who was head of the federal Office of Government Ethics during the Obama administration, told The Washington Post .

Two days in, it was still only the second-most bizarre revelation this week.

On Monday, testimony that two Democrats released in a letter to Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, showed Pruitt instructed Millan Hupp, a longtime aide, to try to buy an old mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Hupp told investigators that she wasnt sure why Pruitt wanted the mattress and that, to her knowledge, it wasnt for EPA business.

Yet the requests almost comical in their strangeness, raising new questions about his odd relationships with appointees served as distractions from a controversy that put Pruitts unabashedly close ties to an industry he regulates in stark relief.

On Saturday, The New York Times detailed how Pruitt sat courtside at a University of Kentucky basketball game in December as the guest of Joseph W. Craft III, a billionaire coal executive who aggressively lobbied to reverse Obama-era environmental rules. Pruitt has met with the Alliance Resource Partners chief executive, formerly a major donor to Pruitts election campaigns in his native Oklahoma, at least nine times since becoming EPA administrator.