{"id":63932,"date":"2016-01-20T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63932"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:16:21","slug":"japhet-rivera-va-hospital-director-paid-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63932","title":{"rendered":"Japhet Rivera; VA hospital director paid to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob sends us this link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/01\/18\/va-secretly-paid-exec-86000-to-quit\/\">Daily Caller<\/a> about Japhet Rivera, the former hospital director in Dannville, Illinois. Rivera was being investigated for retaliation against a whistleblower. He went to the Merit Systems Protection Board to protect his job. The VA was AWOL from the hearings, they didn&#8217;t present any evidence against Rivera, because thier plan was to buy him off, instead of firing his ass for not doing his job and for sexual escapades on the job. According to Rivera;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey tried to fire me, but because of my rights to go to the MSPB to review the case, an administrative law judge reviewed the case and she was about to send me back to work for a couple of [reasons],\u201d Rivera told TheDCNF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne was the VA failed to provide all the information that they used to make a decision. It really wasn\u2019t all that important \u2026 but at any rate they didn\u2019t provide it to me, so that was a major\u201d reason the judge sided with him, Rivera said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was going to return me to work and the VA said they just wanted me out of there,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cUnder the agreement for my resignation, the VA gave me seven months of pay and all my expenses&#8230;They also paid for the attorney\u2019s fees and basically everything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They paid him $86,000 instead of going through the process to fire him, you know, because it&#8217;s only tax payer money and there&#8217;s an endless stream of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob sends us this link to the Daily Caller about Japhet Rivera, the former hospital director &hellip; <a title=\"Japhet Rivera; VA hospital director paid to resign\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63932\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japhet Rivera; VA hospital director paid to resign<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63932","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=63932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}