Trump whistleblower protection office under investigation -- for retaliating against whistleblowers:
Source: raw story
16 Apr 2019 at 17:32 ET
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Government Executive reported Tuesday that the Veterans Affairs IG is probing whether the agency’s Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection retaliated against whistleblowers.
“It’s a crooked system where literally the fox is guarding the hen house,” Jay DeNofrio, an administrative officer at a VA facility in Pennsylvania, told GovExec.
DeNofrio, the report noted, had been a whistleblower prior to the office’s creation by Trump in 2017 when he reported a VA doctor who he said was losing mental capacity and potentially putting veterans at risk.
According to him, the OAWP “coordinated with VA headquarters to find blemishes on his own record after he reported wrongdoing. When questioning his coworkers after he blew the whistle, DeNofrio said the office told them he “does not walk on water” in spite of his protected status and that they should report him for “any instances of poor behavior.”......................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/trump-whistleblower-protection-office-investigation-retaliating-whistleblowers-report/
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