I know....ridiculous. they act like this is just a case of improper procurement. obviously these were phony payments to fake vendors. I imagine the VA administrators set up the vendors with themselves as the account holders and then basically paid themselves. this would probably be the easiest fraud investigation ever but as long as its held up in oversight commeittees it will never get done
Yet the article is even written like its about skipping steps to make the system work faster. This is clearly theft.