Five VA officials left amid conference fallout
Federal Times
By SEAN REILLY
Nov. 3, 2013
An investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Republican staff reveals that five Veterans Affairs Department officials who were recommended for disciplinary action last year over a high-profile conference scandal have all since left the department.
The scandal concerned two training conferences held in Orlando, Fla., in 2011 that cost an estimated $6.1 million. The two events served about 1,800 VA human resource employees. And while they fulfilled valid training needs, there were about $762,000 in unauthorized, unneeded or wasteful expenses, according to an audit last fall by the VA inspector general’s office.
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