Heavy Hitters!

As vets await checks, VA workers get $24M bonuses

Why must we go to British sources to read about Health Care for Bureaucrats NOT Veterans? Where are our intrepid, watergate type, reporters? This is a clear case of Health Care for the benefit of faceless bureaucrats. Will anything be done? I am NOT holding my breath!

Think how this activity will grow with Obamessiah's Health Care! It will be like a "license to steal" for bureaucrats!

Outside the Veterans Affairs Department, severely wounded veterans have faced financial hardship waiting for their first disability payment. Inside, money has been flowing in the form of $24 million in bonuses.

The inspector general accused one recently retired VA official of acting "as if she was given a blank checkbook" as awards and bonuses were distributed to employees of the Office of Information and Technology in 2007 and 2008. In some cases the justification for the bonuses was inadequate or questionable, the IG said.

The official, Jennifer S. Duncan, also engaged in nepotism and got $60,000 in bonuses herself, the IG said. In addition, managers improperly authorized college tuition payments for VA employees, some of whom were Duncan's family members and friends. That cost taxpayers nearly $140,000.

Separately, a technology office employee became involved in an "inappropriate personal relationship" with a high-level VA official. The technology office employee flew 22 times from Florida to Washington, where the VA official lived. That travel cost $37,000.

And there is much more.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8668233


go John Galt