Posted on 09/10/2014 4:58:52 PM PDT by Nachum
Two Veterans Affairs Medical Center employees were arrested last week for using VA facilities to smuggle and deal cocaine, the Department of Justice recently announced. Robert Tucker and Erik Casiano had been using the U.S. Postal Service and the mailroom of a VA Medical Center in the Bronx to receive and distribute cocaine since “at least November 2013,” according to the press release. Tucker has worked for the VA since 1997, and in 2012 was promoted to supervisor of the Logistics Warehouse and Mail Center. Casiano, a pipefitter in the plumbing department, had worked for the center since 2012. All told, the
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Coke Ring? Probably the most efficient thing VA staffers are doing anywhere.
Not surprised since the vets themselves run drug rings at the local VAs that I know of
I remember back during the Vietnam war, people were smuggling drugs from S.E. Asia in to the US by packing them in caskets of dead G.I.s.
There are some really disgusting people in this world.
V A ping.
You are so right.
Totally FUBAR !
Thanks for posting. BTTT!
Was brought to my attention that this short comment could be viewed as anti-vet. Not the case.
My comment was based on two VA hospitals that I am familiar with. There are some of the younger vets who congregate while waiting for services? They swap drugs and tell each other what needs to be said to the docs to get a PTSD diagnosis and what symptoms get you what drugs. These folks are gaming the system and using services that rightfully should be going to vets who truly need them
Just wondering...did they have a waiting list?
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