Former VA secretary calling termination wrong, unlawful

Veterans Affairs to see lawsuit
Former VA secretary calling termination wrong, unlawful

By Katherine Kehoe
Friday, December 11, 2009 1:08 a.m

The former Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary announced Thursday he will be taking legal action against the DVA Board, which fired him last month for suspicious activities.

In his suit, former secretary John Scocos claims his firing from the board was unlawful because of both state and federal laws that prohibit firing veterans within one year of their return from deployment.

A retired Army colonel who returned from Iraq in September, Scocos was fired in late November.

“Because the Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs chooses partisan politics over principles and ethics, I was unlawfully fired two days before Thanksgiving — the first Thanksgiving I would have with my family in two years,” Scocos said in a statement released Thursday.
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