Luke Rosiak Christmas came early this week for one of the naughtiest of former Department of Veterans Affairs employees, when VA’s official watchdog spared him the embarrassment of a damning official report about his illegal conduct from being made public. The nearly 300-page report describes how the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General’s former top…
Jonah Bennett A therapist at the Phoenix VA medical center is apologizing for dressing up like whistleblower Brandon Coleman, who is also a disabled veteran. Therapist Jeremy Pottle, along with his supervisor Lisa Benner, were both suspended after hospital leadership became aware Pottle’s costume and the fact Benner allowed him to wear it all day…
Jonah Bennett Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said Friday that more claims about the agency should be fact-checked, just as he uttered a complete falsehood. “I’m always glad when veterans issues are raised, I just wish there would be more fact-checking on some of the numbers that are used,” McDonald said at the…
Jonah Bennett The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) claims it provides strong support to whistleblowers, but one high-ranking union official in an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation slams Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblowers for being uninformed and not coordinating with the union. J. Ward Morrow, assistant general counsel for AFGE, wrote an email to…
Connor D. Wolf Unions have a “stranglehold” on the Department of Veterans affairs, Republican Rep. Jeff Miller said Wednesday, preventing meaningful reform of the agency that’s been under scrutiny since a 2014 scandal that left dozens dead. Delays in care and questionable treatment practices that were found to have left veterans dead resulted in public outrage and a…
PHOENIX, AZ–The incompetence of government health care continues to be revealed as VA scandals continue to make headlines, but there’s one place a vet can still go to be taken care of. Last week, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona stated vets were receiving better care in prison than at the VA hospital. As…