“One day before Minu Aghevli testified at a House committee hearing about official Department of Veterans Affairs misconduct, she received a thick packet of documents that shook her life…”
“But the moniker that matters now for her is VA whistleblower. Aghevli has made disclosures that she said led department officials to dismiss her, despite her Gold VA Pins for excellent customer service.”
“Aghevli’s allegations are serious. They include phony-wait-list assertions of the type that have bedeviled VA since it was consumed by a scandal that broke in 2014. She also accused department officials of lying to Congress.”
“‘In order to reduce the wait list, I was instructed to improperly remove veterans from the electronic wait list by scheduling fake appointments for them in an imaginary clinic,’ she told the House Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee on oversight and investigations…” Read the full article here.
Source: Whistleblower says VA ordered fake appointments to cut waiting list – By Joe Davidson, June 27, 2019. Washington Post.
