VA execs were encouraged to spend more on wasteful conferences

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Top Department of Veterans Affairs officials had incentives to spend money rather than control costs for two employee-training conferences that wasted hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.

Most of the $6.1 million spent on the conferences came from accounts that normally fund veterans’ health care.

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