Fired Head of Veterans Affairs Office in Phoenix About To Be Rehired
6th June 2016
The Crust takes care of its own.
Sharon Helman, who oversaw the Phoenix office for Veterans Affairs—the one that created phony waiting lists to avoid oversight and criticism and whose exposure by CNN prompted a new law—is probably going to get rehired. Forget for the moment that “Helman plead guilty earlier this year to not reporting $50,000 in gifts she received from a lobbyist seeking business with the VA, including a car and a $5,000 check.” And hell, let’s forget what was going on in the Phoenix office that she headed up: An investigation discovered at least 3,500 vets stuck on secret waiting lists so they wouldn’t be counted on official lists that tracked how quickly former soldiers got treatment. At least a few dozen of the vets died while on such lists.