{"id":38216,"date":"2013-10-31T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38216"},"modified":"2013-10-31T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T12:12:15","slug":"vas-john-sepulveda-pleads-the-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38216","title":{"rendered":"VA&#8217;s John Sepulveda pleads the fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those training seminars a few years ago that the VA held which cost us American taxpayers millions of dollars? Well, Congress has been exercising it&#8217;s oversight responsibility finally and questioning the people responsible for those lavish parties. John Sepulveda is the latest, the third, to hide behind the fifth amendment, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/oct\/30\/ex-va-exec-wont-testify-lavish-conference-spending\/\">Washington Times<\/a> link sent to us by Country Singer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Sepulveda oversaw the pair of human resources training conferences that cost more than $6 million combined, drawing comparisons to an infamous 2010 General Services Administration conference scandal that drew taxpayer ire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to remain silent, sir,\u201d Mr. Sepulveda told House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican.<\/p>\n<p>His refusal to answer questions comes months after two other officials appeared before Congress and pleaded the Fifth Amendment in unrelated scandals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we have no right to find out what happened to our six million bucks and who made the decisions to hold these  f\u00eates for the folks who won&#8217;t process veterans&#8217; disability claims in a timely manner. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re protecting themselves, but rather a former general who was fixated on a hat that he lost in 1979.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those training seminars a few years ago that the VA held which cost us American &hellip; <a title=\"VA&#8217;s John Sepulveda pleads the fifth\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38216\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA&#8217;s John Sepulveda pleads the fifth<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}