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A new internal report from the Veterans Affairs Department shows the VA spent at least $6.1 million for a pair of training conferences with about $762,000 labeled as "unauthorized, unnecessary, and/or wasteful expenses."
A senior Department of Veterans Affairs official has resigned following the release Sept. 30 of an Inspector General's report that blasted the VA for leadership failure and ethical violations following lavish VA conferences at a Florida resort last year where employees took gifts from contractors.
Poor oversight at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs allowed agency officials to waste as much as $762,000 at a pair of multimillion-dollar conferences that took place last year in Orlando, according to an investigative report released Monday.
Federal officials squandered as much as $762,000 on two training conferences last year in Orlando, according to a scathing report issued today that resulted in the resignation of a top Department of Veterans Affairs executive, referral of a second case for possible prosecution, and the rebuke of additional VA employees.
Two Veterans Affairs Department training conferences held last summer in Orlando, Fla., contained as much as $762,000 in wasteful spending and were plagued by poor planning and oversight, according to an inspector general report released Monday.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, Rep. Jeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, issued the following statement on the final findings of VA’s Office of Inspector General investigation into two VA Human Resources Conferences held in Orlando, Florida, last year:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs (DAMA) held a hearing entitled, “Breaking Through the Backlog: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the New State Strike Force Team.” With the disability claims backlog over 850,000 pending claims, the Subcommittee has been in the process of reviewing alternate models in order to assist VA in alle