VA Secretly Paid Exec Who Threatened Whistleblower $86,000 To Quit

The VA has repeatedly told Congress in recent years that it doesn’t need new management powers to fire bad workers, but Rivera, a high-level, non-union employee, prevented his firing on a technicality by appealing to the Merit Systems Protection Board. The MSPB is a small federal panel that hears cases involving allegations of violations of civil service employee rights.

Instead of removing the director of the VA Illiana Healthcare System in Danville, Illinois by firing after Gibson’s own investigation found serious misconduct, the VA then paid him the $86,000 lump sum, plus expenses, in exchange for his resignation, while telling no one what had happened.

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