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A congressional investigation into sexual misconduct allegations at a troubled Veterans Affairs facility in Tennessee revealed that at least 12 officials who worked there took part in an orgy ...
The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 (H.R. 3230; Pub. L. 113–146 (text)), also known as the Veterans Choice Act, is a United States public law that is intended to address the ongoing Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014.
The Veteran Access to Care Act of 2014 is a bill that would allow United States veterans to receive their healthcare from non-VA facilities under certain conditions. [1] [2] The bill is a response to the Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014, in which it was discovered that there was systematic lying about the wait times veterans experienced waiting to be seen by doctors.
The VA OIG reported in May 2014 that 17 veteran deaths had occurred while waiting for VHA treatment in the Phoenix VA system, and on June 5, 2014, the Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Sloan Gibson, reported that the VA had identified 18 additional deaths. The 18 deaths were among the group of 1700 identified as "at risk of being lost or ...
A former Tennessee police officer who was fired amid revelations of casual sex among sworn, often on-duty personnel, alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was subjected to “sexual grooming” at ...
Marie Fajardo Ragghianti (born June 13, 1942) [1] is an American parole board administrator, famous as the whistleblower who exposed Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton's "clemency for cash" scandal in 1977-79. Ragghianti grew up in Florida, where she was regarded as a beauty queen. [2] She married a boxer, but her husband became an alcoholic.
Operation Rocky Top became public in January 1989 when W.D. "Donnie" Walker, a one-time bingo regulator in the state government who later became a lobbyist, pleaded guilty to offering McNally a $10,000 (equivalent to $27,796 in 2023) bribe in exchange for his vote on a measure to legalize horse racing.
Associate professor Tore Olsson at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville wrote the book inspired by one of his history class. April 15, 2024. Olsson has taught the class three times since 2021.