“VA officials had received an inquiry from Congress in September 2012 about the Bronx payments, but a letter signed by former secretary Eric Shinseki did not go out until July 2013. The agency had prepared to say that the records had been transferred to VA’s medical center in Manhattan, where they were destroyed in Hurricane Sandy, documents obtained by The Post show.
But in reviewing the claim that the records had been destroyed, a senior adviser in Shinseki’s office was skeptical. “Gemma — this isn’t going to work,” the adviser wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Post.”
unbelievable. and do they really want to pretend they bought prosthetics with all that money?
Fake boobs for their girlfriends are "prosthetics".
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
Wouldn't it be simple enough to contact all of the approved prosthetic suppliers and find out who placed the orders and when?
“..a senior adviser in [Secretary] Shinseki’s office was skeptical. “Gemma — this isn’t going to work,” the adviser wrote in an e-mail obtained by The Post.”
That sounds like it is much more than some guy in procurement skimming off the top. This was going on in the months/years prior to Sept. 2012. Hmm - what else of note happened in Sept. 2012.
The Benghazi attack. $54 million will buy a lot of arms for terrorists.