Trump’s Promise to Veterans
Corruption at the VA isn’t punished, while the Pentagon claws back signing bonuses.
By Rebecca Burgess
April 13, 2017 6:38 p.m. ET
Donald Trump pitched himself as a friend to the American military, and to veterans in particular. His campaign pledged to fix the Department of Veterans Affairs “by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA executives who let our veterans down.” Since taking office, however, President Trump hasn’t defined what, if anything, his administration will do to make good on that promise. Here are a couple of obvious wrongs he can easily make right.
In 2015, a pair of senior VA officials were accused of defrauding the department to the tune of $400,000. Diana Rubens and Kimberly Graves, the directors of two regional VA offices, had allegedly manipulated the department’s hiring and transfer systems for personal financial gain. Ms. Rubens was accused of pressuring a subordinate to leave the VA’s Philadelphia office so she could take the job herself, move from Washington, and collect a $288,000 relocation payout. Similarly, Ms. Graves received more than $129,000 by engineering a move from Philadelphia to St. Paul, Minn.
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