Scrutiny over latest VA firings likely just the start
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Scrutiny over latest VA firings likely just the start
Oct. 9, 2014 - 12:37PM |
By Leo Shane III
Staff writer
Four Veterans Affairs senior executives being dismissed this month are the first to face the departments controversial new firing authorities, approved by Congress in July.
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More than 100 cases related to malfeasance at VA facilities have been opened by the departments inspector general, the Office of Special Counsel and the FBI, with most expected to be completed in coming weeks.
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The new firing rules cover only VA senior executives, fewer than 500 of the departments roughly 340,000 employees. The ongoing investigations have looked at the practices of not just supervisors and senior executives but also lower-level workers, and criticized individuals at nearly every level for the ongoing failures.