Dr. Bovin contacted the VA Office of Inspecter General over what he feared was a gross misuse of taxpayers's money regarding research into what ostensibly was to be TBI related-finding instead- as he charged- that the monies paid for consultants, etc was not earned properly and one consultant's proposal- he charged- was actually plagarized from an Oxford University proposal on the internet.
The VA consultant was paid $107,000 in taxpayer's money for very little input or actual work .
This was but one of his concerns to the OIG.
Dr. Bovin found that after he had questioned some practices involving these issues that the VA began to retaliate against him.
He was suspended last September from the VA BIRL program which he had been director of as a VA neurologist-the very program and research that VA said would be done to properly assess Traumatic Brian Injury in veterans.I dont have the status of his employment and I or someone will ask him tonight on the air.
"I had a chance to help 40,000 veterans with brain injury" Dr. Bovin remarked to the Austin Chronicle yet the doctor found many areas of alarming wastes of money
had occurred in the developement of the BIRL program.
Yet his position is now in jeopardy.In an article at statesman.com dated April 25,2009 he stated that only 1% of whistle blower cases filed with the US Office of Special Counsel had been found to be valid (2007 stats) and that only 3 of 211 cases were found valid whistleblower cases at the Federal Court of Appeals for the Merit Protection System.
His charges of fraud, waste and mismanagement reflect the old adage of 'kill the messenger' and most importantly the BIRLS program seems at a standstill as the VA has decided to move it and combine BIRL research with the WACO
Center of Excellence -which holds the most powerful MRI in the world.
Traumatic Brain Injured veterans are the true victims of this whole situation.
The link to Stardust Radio is here at hadit- show time 5:30 CT and 6:30 EST.
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VA Watchdog's most recent article on Dr. Bovin is at:
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nfjun09/nf060509-3.htm
Dr. Bovin contacted the VA Office of Inspecter General over what he feared was a gross misuse of taxpayers's money regarding research into what ostensibly was to be TBI related-finding instead- as he charged- that the monies paid for consultants, etc was not earned properly and one consultant's proposal- he charged- was actually plagarized from an Oxford University proposal on the internet.
The VA consultant was paid $107,000 in taxpayer's money for very little input or actual work .
This was but one of his concerns to the OIG.
Dr. Bovin found that after he had questioned some practices involving these issues that the VA began to retaliate against him.
He was suspended last September from the VA BIRL program which he had been director of as a VA neurologist-the very program and research that VA said would be done to properly assess Traumatic Brian Injury in veterans.I dont have the status of his employment and I or someone will ask him tonight on the air.
"I had a chance to help 40,000 veterans with brain injury" Dr. Bovin remarked to the Austin Chronicle yet the doctor found many areas of alarming wastes of money
had occurred in the developement of the BIRL program.
Yet his position is now in jeopardy.In an article at statesman.com dated April 25,2009 he stated that only 1% of whistle blower cases filed with the US Office of Special Counsel had been found to be valid (2007 stats) and that only 3 of 211 cases were found valid whistleblower cases at the Federal Court of Appeals for the Merit Protection System.
His charges of fraud, waste and mismanagement reflect the old adage of 'kill the messenger' and most importantly the BIRLS program seems at a standstill as the VA has decided to move it and combine BIRL research with the WACO
Center of Excellence -which holds the most powerful MRI in the world.
Traumatic Brain Injured veterans are the true victims of this whole situation.
The link to Stardust Radio is here at hadit- show time 5:30 CT and 6:30 EST.
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