In a letter to Denis McDonough, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) urges the VA to answer questions about alleged whistleblower retaliation and lack of action in responding to a congressional probe of issues whistleblowers raised regarding ethics.
Grassley opens the letter by mentioning an article published on WNN and written by Jason Foster of Empower Oversight. Foster’s October article details a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in which Empower Oversight requested information from the VA about the agency’s reactions to Grassley’s earlier inquiries about a case of potential whistleblower retaliation and culture.
The situation in question involves the alleged conduct of Charmain Bogue, Executive Director of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). An April 4 press release about Grassley’s first inquiries about the situation explains that whistleblower allegations centered around “an alleged VA Office of General Counsel memorandum that determined Bogue should recuse herself from any and all VA matters involving her husband’s firms.” The whistleblowers also alleged that “after internal warnings about the need to protect market-sensitive information, that information may have been leaked, which was then publicly traded on, potentially affecting stock prices and retail investors.”
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