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Sad but it happens. I'm just glad they got caught. By the way, not much pisses me off these days. I'm more pissed that our society has lost it's common sense and ability to actually "think."

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This is clearly an "inside" (the VA) job/aided and abetted by a VA employee. It probably wasnt even the Vets idea..the VA employee probably solicited the Veterans, offering a "cut".

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This is so bad and sick, how and why do people think they can get by with it is be young me. Most on here are fighting the VA for compensation and medical help. This just makes it so hard for us.

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The Veterans will wind up going to jail, BUT the VA employee will likely get promoted. THE VAOIG will investigate Veterans, but they dont investigate VA employees. There is "zero" accountability for VA employees, they can steal billions and nothing ever happens.

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This is really something, I just had a C & P for diabetes and the Doctor said, "I don't believe you have diabetes" He did not order any blood work at all. Just said you don't have it. Yet I have a diagnosis from a private doctor that I do have it and I am taking Metformim for it. I sent the diagnosis in with the claim. I haven't received the official denial yet but, there will be a nod filed when I do. These guys have some conspiracy going on and receive benefits for it. I hope they get the max punishment for it.

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What should worry us or infuriate us even more is that the focus of this story is the 5 vets and their Vietnam/agent orange status. They could not have done it without the active participation of a VA employee. Shouldn't the headline read something like "Veterans Affairs Manager Indicted for Leading Benefits Fraud Ring"! Then in the introductory paragraph mention five have plead guilty and 12 more are being investigated. Nope that won't do, apparently even those writing for the Stars and Stripes have enough journalistic training at the hands of leftist leaning journalisim professors that we have to make it about Vietnam Veterans. Spitting on our honored brothers and calling them baby killers wasn't enough. Never mind similar schemes like this have been uncovered in the past (not invloving agent orange disabilities) and each time it was only possible because some VA thug wanted to be a full fledged gangster/white collar crime mastermind. An uninformed reader might suppose that this type of fruad was only possible because of the agent orange presumptives.

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