Scandal Plagued VA Workers Paid $142.5 Million for Performance

Today we award our coveted Golden Fleece to the Veterans Administration for dishing out $142.5 million in bonuses for 2014. Included in those slopping up at your trough were:

• Philadelphia claims processors in the VA office labeled by investigators the worst in the country;
• Managers over construction of a Denver facility that was years late and a cool $1 billion over budget;
• Chief of staff of the Tomah, WI VA medical center, dubbed “Candy Man” for over prescribing narcotics;
• Augusta, GA financial manager who admitted drinking and driving a government owned truck to a VA meeting. And did we mention that a co-worker fell out of the truck and died?

According to a VA spokesman they doled out these bonuses to “…attract and maintain the best talent to serve our nation’s veterans…”

Maybe this should have been a platinum fleece.

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