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05-30-2014, 12:01 AM
Calls for VA Secretary Shinseki's Resignation Mount After New Allegations
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A growing wave of politicians have called on Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign following a report from the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general's ****** that turned up a fresh set of fraud allegations against the organization.
See also: Obama on Veterans Affairs Misconduct: 'I Will **t Tolerate It, Period' (http://mashable.com/2014/05/21/va-preventable-deaths/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
What the new report finds
It stated that VA employees have allegedly been falsifying records related to appointment waiting lists, making it seem as though appointment wait-times for veterans are much shorter than they actually are.
It found that VA employees sometimes created fake cancellations and rescheduled veteran appointments so that the average wait-time was lower. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/va-secretary-shinseki-resignation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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A growing wave of politicians have called on Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign following a report from the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general's ****** that turned up a fresh set of fraud allegations against the organization.
See also: Obama on Veterans Affairs Misconduct: 'I Will **t Tolerate It, Period' (http://mashable.com/2014/05/21/va-preventable-deaths/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
What the new report finds
It stated that VA employees have allegedly been falsifying records related to appointment waiting lists, making it seem as though appointment wait-times for veterans are much shorter than they actually are.
It found that VA employees sometimes created fake cancellations and rescheduled veteran appointments so that the average wait-time was lower. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/va-secretary-shinseki-resignation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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