“In May and October 2017, the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) received several complaints alleging mismanagement and misuse of the VA Executive Protection Division. The complainants alleged ineffective procedures, scheduling and overtime abuses, pay administration issues, time card fraud, and various policy violations. They also alleged the misuse of the Executive Protection Division by former VA Secretary David Shulkin. The OIG substantiated that VA mismanaged the Executive Protection Division from at least 2015. The OIG found that there were no published operational policies or procedures on critical executive protection functions and a lack of adequate threat assessments. The OIG also identified several potential security vulnerabilities caused by members of the Executive Protection Division, as well as abuses by agents who claimed to be performing official duties when they were not…” Read the full report here.
Source: Mismanagement of the VA Executive Protection Division – January 17, 2019. Oversight.gov.
