Whistleblower: Phoenix VA Covered Up Veteran Deaths

Whistleblower: VA Covered Up Veteran Deaths (Washington Free Beacon)

A new whistleblower has come forward in the VA scandal, telling CNN the Phoenix VA has been covering up veteran deaths. Someone in the VA  removed “deceased” notes from electronic files so that they would not show up on statistics of veterans who died awaiting VA attention.

The whistleblower, Phoenix VA scheduling clerk Pauline DeWenter, also said she was forced to make life and death decisions about who would receive care. When she finally came forward to the Inspector General, the office ignored her evidence.

CNN’s Drew Griffin, who first reported on the scandal, asked DeWenter, “Somebody is going on that electronic wait list and where people are identified as being dead, somebody is changing that and saying ‘no they’re not dead’?”