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Sworn statement said she was pressured by her bosses in washington to report the hospital was in compliance after she report it was not. bowers statement also said she briefed va secretary eric shinseki often about the patient backlog but the problems went unaddressed because she was told to there was no money to lease more space to handle the back locks. the times also reports that an administrative law judge found this week, it was quote, more likely than not at least some senior agency leaders were aware or should have been of nationwide problems getting veterans scheduled for timely appoin...

2009 about dangerous delays in treatment and even falsified waiting lists at the phoenix va hospital. doug mckelway live in washington with new information. what it means, doug. >> leland, what makes it so significant, it contradicts the narrative that people at highest levels of the va were unaware of the waiting list problems before they surfaced in the press. also suggests that the problems at troubled phoenix va hospital predated the tenure of director sharon hellman. she was dismissed from her job last month and is now suing to get it back. "the new york times" cites sworn statements of s...

Ignored because she says she was told there was no money to lease more space to handle the backlog. molly. >> what's the latest with sharon hellman's efforts to get her job back? >> well, the times also reports that just this week an administrative law somewhere found that it was -- this is a quote "more likely than not that at least some senior agency leaders were aware or should have been aware of nationwide problems getting veterans scheduled for timely appointments." the judge, steven mish, also found that the v.a. didn't provide enough evidence that hellman should have been fired over the...

Delayed medical treatment why are we just learning about this now? >> it's all coming to light as a part of. >> she was suing to get her job back after she was fired in late november. the "new york times" reports today that sworn statements by susan bowers who oversaw dozens of v.a. facilities in the western part of the country show that even before sharon hellman was reported to her job, an audit showed the hospital was out of compliance because of its failure to put patients on the required electronic waiting list. bauer said there was no such list in phoenix. even while hellman's predecesso...

Compliance because it didn't put patients waiting on electronic list. bowers further stated in sworn documents she was pressured by her bosses in washington to report the hospital was in compliance after she submitted reports says it was not. "the times" also reports that bowers said she briefed va secretary eric shinseki many times about the patient backlog but her pleas were largely ignored because she was told there was no money to lease more space to handle all the backlogs. >> doug, what is the latest with sharon hellman's effort to get her job back? >> reporter: "the new york time" repor...