{"id":69782,"date":"2017-01-12T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69782"},"modified":"2017-01-12T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:26:27","slug":"mark-wisner-va-tickle-monster-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69782","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wisner; VA tickle monster retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69783\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mark-Wisner-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mark-Wisner-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Mark-Wisner.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sends us a link dated late last year from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/crime\/man-accused-of-sexually-abusing-veterans-at-a-va-hospital-is-drawing-retirment-benefits\">KSHB<\/a> in Kansas City. It tells the story of Mark Wisner who was employed by the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department and admitted to at least one case of &#8220;inappropriately touching&#8221; a veteran in his care;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In September, Sen. Jerry Moran questioned VA Secretary Robert McDonald on the handling of Wisner&#8217;s case. McDonald maintained Wisner resigned. <\/p>\n<p>An internal e-mail from the VA explains how an investigation on Wisner was opened on May 19, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>During the course of that investigation, Wisner admitted to inappropriately touching at least one patient. That&#8217;s when the investigation was expanded, and investigators reached out to the patients he treated over the prior year. <\/p>\n<p>Before the investigation was complete, Wisner filed for retirement and was granted it officially, on June 30, 2014. He is still receiving federal payment and pension as a retiree. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t just drive up to Washington and start clunking heads together, because I know that&#8217;s what everyone wants to do. But wake up. Somebody please wake up,&#8221; said [25-year-old Jake Carlson, who received a Purple Heart for his service]. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The VA seems to be the swamp that most needs draining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sends us a link dated late last year from KSHB in Kansas City. It tells &hellip; <a title=\"Mark Wisner; VA tickle monster retires\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69782\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark Wisner; VA tickle monster retires<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69782","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\/69782","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=69782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}