{"id":63664,"date":"2016-01-04T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63664"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:48:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:48:46","slug":"us-attorney-wont-prosecute-va-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63664","title":{"rendered":"US Attorney won’t prosecute VA employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story is about a week old and I’ve been meaning to mention it, but got overcome by events. Anyway, Dave reminds us of it this afternoon. It sems that the Justice Department has decided that they won’t prosecute those two women who are still VA employees, Diana Rubens and Kimberly Graves who bilked the VA out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while reducing their workload and increasing their salaries. According to Fox News<\/a>; <\/p>\n

Rubens had been earning $181,497 as director of the Philadelphia regional office for the Veterans Benefits Administration, while Graves earned $173,949 as leader of the St. Paul, Minnesota, regional office. Before taking the regional jobs, Rubens was a deputy undersecretary at the VA’s Washington headquarters, while Graves was director of VBA’s 14-state North Atlantic Region.<\/p>\n

Rubens and Graves were accused of obtaining more than $400,000 in questionable moving expenses through a relocation program for VA executives, the inspector general’s report said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Attorney’s office said it has “referred the matter to the VA for any administrative action that is deemed appropriate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the VA demoted the pair, but for some reason, there was a “paperwork mixup” which prevented their demotion. Basically, if it ever takes affect, they’ll still be making six figures for the jobs that they were doing before they were caught. I hope that the pair is done taking the US taxpayer to the cleaners, but somehow, I don’t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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