Tag: Mark Flatten

Rewarding failure at the Department of Veterans' Affairs is the theme of a web page launched Thursday by the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to track examples of big bonuses paid to agency executives despite poor performance. (Washington Examiner file)

House site to track VA bonuses for botched performance

Mark Flatten · August 29, 2013 4:00 am

Documents show six top administrators of the Veterans Health Administration received performance bonuses in excess of $16,000 last year. (Examiner File)

Nothing stopped VA’s fat bonuses, not even dead vets, dirty hospitals

Mark Flatten · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Under Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, VA doctors who were disciplined for violations like practicing with an expired license and refusing to see emergency room patients still got performance bonuses. (AP/Evan Vucci)

VA giving big bonuses to absent, unlicensed, incompetent doctors

Mark Flatten · August 23, 2013 4:00 am

VA progress on claims backlog is a statistical illusion, vets groups say

VA progress on claims backlog is a statistical illusion, vets groups say

Mark Flatten · August 20, 2013 4:00 am

Few in Congress seem to care about veterans preference fraud

Few in Congress seem to care about veterans preference fraud

Mark Flatten · August 9, 2013 4:00 am

A sign of the Department of Veterans Affairs is shown above.

Veterans preference fraud widespread but government prosecutes few cases

Mark Flatten · August 8, 2013 4:00 am

Legitimately disabled veteran entrepreneurs are the real victims when fraud occurs, said Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, a retired Air Force officer who chaired a House Veterans Affairs subcommittee hearing on the issue last year. (AP File)

VA slow to clean up broken veterans preference contracting mess

Mark Flatten · August 7, 2013 4:00 am

‘Trust me’ is federal policy on policing preference fraud

Mark Flatten · August 6, 2013 4:00 am

Warren Parker's company, Silver Star Construction, won more than $7 million in federal contracts as a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business, despite Parker never seeing combat.

Fraud rampant in veterans preference contracts

Mark Flatten · August 5, 2013 4:00 am

Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, left, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., wish to prohibit federal employees from doing union work on the taxpayers' dime. (AP File)

Bill introduced in Senate to curb ‘official time’ for federal employees doing union work

Mark Flatten · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

Cindy Harrington was caught performing a flip on a trapeze after she began collecting federal disability because of a reported neck injury sustained while lifting a mail tray. Harrington collected more than $193,000 in disability payments, using some of the money to buy a boat called âFree Ride.â She eventually pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
(Photos courtesy U.S. Postal Service Inspector General)

Fraud rampant in fed disability program

Mark Flatten · July 12, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said "maintaining the status quo is not an option" when it comes to federal worker disability fraud. (AP File)

House panel hears Labor Department plan to fight federal worker disability fraud

Mark Flatten · July 10, 2013 4:00 am