VA "center for innovation" officials resign after sex scandal

Veterans Affairs officials resign after promoting employee who used tax dollars for 'female companions,' sexted on VA computers
Washington Examiner
BY LOGAN PORTER
MARCH 10, 2014

Two senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs resigned in recent months after a high-level employee who was improperly hired admitted to having "sexted" on government-issued mobile devices and spent tax dollars to wine and dine "female companions" at bars, according to a newly released inspector general's report.

Jonah Czerwinski, former director of the VA Center for Innovation, failed to detail and supervise the senior-level position he had created for the benefit of the single unnamed employee, the inspector general found. He resigned last September to work for a private consulting firm.

Meanwhile, James Alan Bozeman, former program director for the Veterans Benefits Administration, stepped down in January. Bozeman had requested the unnamed employee, then working for the VA in Nashville, Tenn., be part of a VA technology initiative and introduced the employee to Czerwinski in May 2011, the Office of Inspector General said.

The “program analyst” position the man was given was never posted publicly, and a private link to the job application website was sent only to him.

That employee had previously worked on disability claims related to exposure to Agent Orange as a veteran services representative in Nashville prior to his promotion to the new position in July 2013.

In the months before the promotion, the employee was under investigation by the Office of Inspector General for misusing approximately $31,000 in travel funds and a contractor charge card.
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