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Using funds for personal trips and young is ordered to repay the value of the gifts and issue a letter of rebuke. but the panel said they found no evidence that he delivered false statements to officials. and up ahead, the look of documenting the struggle of human and civil rigthts. and why so many workers at the dysfunctional v.a. earned big bonuses from you.
Veterans affairs held a hearing today in which they were discussing the bonuses that v.a. managers get. turns out the v.a. gives out $400 million a year in performance bonuses and that while as we now know thousands of vets were waiting to get in to even be able to see a doctor. 6 5% of the senior workforce got bonuses for their good work. kirsten? 100% of senior managers net their goals. >> yeah. it doesn't look good. and i think there is nothing wrong with giving performance bonuses. on oously, it gives you an incentive. but i think the fact that they were not able to see that all of these p...
Now that the two republican senators from arizona have brought it to the attention of the veterans affairs committee and the chair is bernie sanders. he's saying he degrees, an independent probe is necessary. >> everyone's going to say, i agree, this is outrageous. the question will be, what are they going to do about it? what are they going to do to hold the v.a.'s secretary at the very top and these regional managers accountable? we'll be asking bernie sanders directly, do you support the v.a. management accountability act of 2014, which is a piece of legislation pending in the senate right ...
This is outrageous. 40 veterans may have died waiting to get into the doctor and there might be a secret list? >> this is outrage at its utmost. it's not just waiting but that they covered up the waiting by maintaining a secret list. they would get the appointment, they would input it into a system, take a screen shot of that on the computer. take it out of the system, put it in a file and wait till it was 15 days before the appointment and then log it into the system -- >> why, though? >> sharon, she's the poster child for failure at v.a., she did the same thing in spokane, washington. she di...
The v.a. there created a secret waiting list, designed to cover up the fact that thousands of vets were waiting nearly two years to see a primary care physician. molly henneberg is live in washington with the story. >> gretchen, sharon helmand, the medical director of the phoenix, arizona, v.a, says he never told any staff to create a secret waiting list. but fox news covered that others strongly disagree. one program analyst wrote in an e-mail to helmand that veterans may be on a waiting list for months before getting on an appointment list. he wrote, sure, when their pointed is created, it c...