Posted on 03/07/2017 9:34:34 AM PST by george76
One week after promising to keep Congress and the public “fully and currently” informed, the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rewrote a report to remove evidence that a senior VA executive tried to steer a massive government contract to her husband’s employer.
Laura Eskenazi, then-vice chairman of the Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA), “misused her public office” by plotting with her husband Jonathan to develop a plan that could lead to a major financial “opportunity” for CACI, a government contractor that employed him. Eskenazi then sought to cover it up with “dubious” claims, according to a 49-page draft version of the IG report that was obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group (TheDCNF).
But the version given Congress and the public was only 10 pages discussing an unrelated and less serious rumor about Eskenazi, which the IG said it “did not substantiate.” Nothing was said in the final version about the contracting issue.
Michael Missal, then-newly appointed IG, promised to end activities that had earned the office a reputation as a lapdog, not watchdog ...
He was responding to revelations that his predecessors “failed to release the findings of 140 probes of VA health care and sat on the results of 77 wait-time investigations,” including burying evidence of deliberate manipulation of wait times in a “restricted” report years before the scandal led to dozens of deaths.
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The draft report also included emails in which the Eskenazis discussed framing the demonstration as an intragovernmental project to make it more palatable and “pushing [DOD employees] to the side,” to which Eskenazi responded, “Need to discuss on the phone.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Eskenazi... now there’s a name govt misconduct!
it looks like they both still work for VA.
Are they related to the Eskenazi family that owns shopping centers?
One word: Scum.
Yep.
The VA bureaucrats are organized crime.
I contacted the VA IG about an issue.
They never even replied.
In the VA, one liar lies to cover another liar’s lies.
This was a part of “The Great ObamaNation’s” administration.
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