January 05, 2015
House Veterans' Affairs Committee, military families, Sharon Helman, VA, Veteran's health care, Veterans Affairs, veterans children
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Sharon Helman, the director, was fired from the Department of Veterans Affairs, but only because she improperly took thousands of dollars in gifts. A personnel appeals judge last week rejected the VAās claim that she should also have been dismissed for overseeing the wait lists.
Ms. Helmanās case is just one that the VA is handling in the wake of the wait list scandal, and so far its investigators have had about 20 percent of their decisions weakened or overturned on appeal, according to the House Veteransā Affairs Committee.
Now top lawmakers on Capitol Hill and independent analysts are questioning how VA investigators failed to make the wait list scandal stick to Ms. Helman, who became its central figure.
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