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REPORT: Veteran Says He Received Certificate Signed By Trump In Mail Declaring He’s Dead

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reportedly declared veteran of the Utah National Guard Craig Haskell dead by mistake, leaving him for five months without pension or benefits.

The VA declared Haskell deceased as of Nov. 22, 2024, and the veteran was even sent a certificate signed by President Donald Trump in his memory through the mail, he told KSL.

“Horrible mistake,” Haskell said about the situation. “But it just needs to be corrected.”

“The pension benefits and all those are gone,” Haskell continued, alleging that the VA owns him over $10,000 in back payments. “So I started making phone calls and meetings with VA people to try to get things resolved.”

The veteran said he tried for five months to get the department to correct the oversight, including submitting affidavits.

(Read more from “REPORT: Veteran Says He Received Certificate Signed By Trump In Mail Declaring He’s Dead” HERE)

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VA Doctor Sentenced to Prison After Sexually Assaulting Veteran Patients

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A former Veterans Affairs Doctor in West Virginia, Jonathan Yates, has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting veteran patients.

“According to the plea documents, Yates rubbed the genitals of two veterans and digitally penetrated a third veteran’s rectum under the guise of legitimate medicine, when in fact he acted without a legitimate medical purpose. This conduct, performed while Yates was acting under color of law in his capacity as a VA physician and a federal employee, deprived the veterans of their constitutional right to bodily integrity and caused them pain. According to the plea documents, the veterans had sought treatment from Yates to manage chronic pain through osteopathic manipulative therapy. Several veterans addressed the court at sentencing, describing the trauma and mental anguish that Yates had caused them. Yates surrendered his medical licenses as a condition of his plea agreement,” the Department of Justice released in a statement Monday.

A number of law enforcement officials who worked on the case had harsh words for Yates. (Read more from “VA Doctor Sentenced to Prison After Sexually Assaulting Veteran Patients” HERE)

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6 Outrageous Times VA Employees Did Wrong and Still Got Paid by You

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Photo Credit: NewscomThe Department of Veterans Affairs remains embroiled in a scandal that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 veterans assigned to its medical facilities. Now, a report from Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., outlines the actions of numerous VA employees who were suspended for various offenses but continued to get a salary from taxpayers.

Coburn today released his annual Wastebook, which highlights “frivolous” projects backed by taxpayer dollars.

This year’s edition notes that taxpayers shelled out $19 million in compensation for government employees placed on administrative leave for a variety of transgressions…

1. Executives at VA clinics nationwide were found to have manipulated wait times for patients to secure bonuses.

Officials attempted to cover up months-long wait times encountered by many veterans before seeing doctors at the VA. More than 40 veterans at one clinic died during such manipulation.

Three officials at a VA clinic in Phoenix–including the director and associate director–were put on paid administrative leave in May as a result of the scandal. The director makes $170,000 a year.

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VA spends almost $100k on coffee break at Florida conference

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The Department of Veterans Affairs spent $90,747 on coffee and refreshments during morning and afternoon breaks at a pair of training conferences in Orlando last year.

These are the same conferences where the $52,000 video parody of the movie Patton – paid for with taxpayer dollars – was first screened. The total cost of the two VA get-togethers held in July and August 2011 at the Marriott World Center in Orlando was about $5.3 million.

The coffee klatches were needed to carry participants between their regular meals, which tallied $98,189 for four days of catering, and their “morning and evening refreshments,” which came with a price tag of almost $185,000.

At least the VA employees were not famished when they arrived at Karaoke Night, which cost $862.

The new numbers come from the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, which has been pressing the VA for spending details related to the human resources training conferences since it learned earlier this month that whistleblower tips led to an investigation by the agency’s inspector general.

Read more from this story HERE.