It must be nice to be a top official with the Department of Veterans Affairs — where corruption, incompetence or being wasteful with taxpayer money doesn’t seem to matter.
The VA has amassed a shockingly poor record of accountability.
Take, for example, the latest that two senior executives obtained more than $400,000 in questionable moving expenses.
The senior executives coerced managers whose jobs they wanted to transfer, then took the jobs themselves, according to a watchdog.
The two face possible criminal prosecution, yet the VA won’t say what action, if any, the agency is taking against the pair, who kept their six-figure salaries.
Or consider what befell Glenn Haggstrom, the VA executive in charge of the construction of the Aurora hospital, where the cost ballooned to a staggering $1.73 billion.
Haggstrom, in a recurring pattern, was allowed to quietly retire.
Does the VA ever fire its executives or hold anyone in power accountable for misdeeds or ineptitude? Time and again they seem to keep working or retire with healthy pensions.
Life is certainly good at the VA.
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