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Phoenix VA director receive $8500 bonus while IG investigates
Posted on 5/21/14 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 5/21/14 at 5:01 pm
No wonder Odrama loves Shinseki.
The director of the Phoenix VA hospital where 40 veterans died while waiting for care received an $8,500 bonus last month, according to Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Sharon Helman, the director of the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System, "got an $8,500 bonus last month while there was an open [inspector general] investigation into Phoenix," Chairman Miller told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview Wednesday.
It had been previously reported that Helman received more than $9,000 in bonus pay in 2013 on top of her annual salary of $169,900. The VA office of inspector general began investigating the Phoenix VA for wrongdoing in December 2013, months before Helman received the additional $8,500 bonus.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary Eric Shinseki "is the final decision maker regarding performance ratings and awards." VA spokesmen did not immediately respond to an inquiry from THE WEEKLY STANDARD asking if Shinseki signed off on Helman's $8,500 bonus in April.
Update: The VA announced this afternoon: “Secretary Shinseki today exercised his authority to rescind Sharon Helman’s fiscal year 2013 performance award immediately. Previously, Ms. Helman received the performance award due to an administrative error.”
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The director of the Phoenix VA hospital where 40 veterans died while waiting for care received an $8,500 bonus last month, according to Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Sharon Helman, the director of the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System, "got an $8,500 bonus last month while there was an open [inspector general] investigation into Phoenix," Chairman Miller told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview Wednesday.
It had been previously reported that Helman received more than $9,000 in bonus pay in 2013 on top of her annual salary of $169,900. The VA office of inspector general began investigating the Phoenix VA for wrongdoing in December 2013, months before Helman received the additional $8,500 bonus.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary Eric Shinseki "is the final decision maker regarding performance ratings and awards." VA spokesmen did not immediately respond to an inquiry from THE WEEKLY STANDARD asking if Shinseki signed off on Helman's $8,500 bonus in April.
Update: The VA announced this afternoon: “Secretary Shinseki today exercised his authority to rescind Sharon Helman’s fiscal year 2013 performance award immediately. Previously, Ms. Helman received the performance award due to an administrative error.”
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Posted on 5/21/14 at 5:06 pm to Jbird
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Previously, Ms. Helman received the performance award due to an administrative error.”
Another freaking administrative error.
Holy Crapola. The entire Obama administration is just one train wreck after another. It's a bottomless pit of ideological ineptitude.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 5:09 pm to Jbird
Question for the leftists on this board: why is it illogical to compare the VA to a universal system here in America, but logical to compare health care systems of countries that are totally different than our own. It is far more likely that single payer here in America will resemble our VA than will resemble euro care.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 5:23 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:Gonna be crickets brah
Question for the leftists on this board
Posted on 5/21/14 at 6:06 pm to Gray Tiger
quote:This administration is without a doubt fricking inept.
Another freaking administrative error.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 6:13 pm to Jbird
Perfectly timed for "their" Memorial Day round of golf. They feel entitled, and also look down upon those that put their lives on the lines. They speak differently, but you can just see it ooze out of the enlightened, elite, leftist pieces of crap that they really are.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 6:14 pm to Iowa Golfer
Odd how their isn't a single person held accountable for a fricking thing, almost as if it's their unstated goal.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 7:47 pm to Jbird
Wtf! Why do federal employees get bonuses?
Posted on 5/21/14 at 7:54 pm to Paluka
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Wtf! Why do federal employees get bonuses?
For cooking the books so that the administration looks good.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 8:11 pm to Gray Tiger
We will await the IG's report. What we won't do is offer the services of the FBI at the IG's request. Even if he only said this it would be better than what is going on currently.
Some crimes need to have intent proven. Others do not. There is enough here to investigate potential criminal activity.
They will never understand the calm, slow, burning anger many of us have right now. I'm not sure many except those that have been shot at would.
The fact that this happened I can not yet blame Obama for, as easy as that would be for me. What I can hold him fully responsible for is his follow up.
Some crimes need to have intent proven. Others do not. There is enough here to investigate potential criminal activity.
They will never understand the calm, slow, burning anger many of us have right now. I'm not sure many except those that have been shot at would.
The fact that this happened I can not yet blame Obama for, as easy as that would be for me. What I can hold him fully responsible for is his follow up.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 8:31 pm to Jbird
Hush money bro. Par. A good peep into the window of the new and future Obama/Progressive Authoritarian Government machine.
Live and learn.
Live and learn.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 8:32 pm to Iowa Golfer
quote:
What I can hold him fully responsible for is his follow up.
Do you mean follow to his past promises, or the most recent?
Posted on 5/21/14 at 8:47 pm to Gray Tiger
Do you mean follow to his past promises, or the most recent?
Specifically this one. He is angry again I guess. He has used this anger thing as a good pr thing before. People keep buying it, and I understand why 10% of us make 90% of the money.
But I get your point. I'm outraged. If we find anything people will be held responsible. And then? People keep buying it and voting for him. And them. Quite discouraging really.
Specifically this one. He is angry again I guess. He has used this anger thing as a good pr thing before. People keep buying it, and I understand why 10% of us make 90% of the money.
But I get your point. I'm outraged. If we find anything people will be held responsible. And then? People keep buying it and voting for him. And them. Quite discouraging really.
Posted on 5/21/14 at 8:49 pm to Jbird
We are trillions in debt. No govt employee should receive a bonus of any kind. Especially people who don't know how to do their jobs.
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