{"id":74837,"date":"2017-09-20T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74837"},"modified":"2017-09-20T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:35:21","slug":"va-fires-brian-hawkins-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74837","title":{"rendered":"VA fires Brian Hawkins again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71478\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MC-Director-Brian-A-Hawkins-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MC-Director-Brian-A-Hawkins-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MC-Director-Brian-A-Hawkins-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MC-Director-Brian-A-Hawkins.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Brian Hawkins was fired from his job as director of the DC VA hospital system for &#8220;the hospital putting veterans at \u201cunnecessary risk,\u201d&#8221; according to a VAOIG preliminary report released in early summer. The Merit Systems Protection Board ordered the VA to rehire him on August 2d.<\/p>\n<p>Well he&#8217;s been fired again, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/va-fires-dc-medical-director-for-the-second-time-1.488619#.WcLAxdFryUk\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The VA inspector general released more findings in August that Hawkins sent sensitive information to private email accounts belonging to him and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The office found the emails while investigating whether Hawkins had purposefully delayed an Administrative Investigative Board inquiry about thousands of dollars in employee bonuses given without justification. Though the inspector general found the investigation into the bonuses was delayed by hospital personnel, the office did not confirm Hawkins had impeded it. Inspectors did determine he sent sensitive personnel information to his spouse \u2013 a violation of VA policy.<\/p>\n<p>The VA said Wednesday that it began the process of firing Hawkins again after the report was released.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he&#8217;ll stay fired this time, but I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hawkins was fired from his job as director of the DC VA hospital system for &hellip; <a title=\"VA fires Brian Hawkins again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74837\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA fires Brian Hawkins again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837","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=74837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}