VA Watchdog: Chief wrongly accepted Wimbledon tickets, airfare

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/12/va-secretary-david-shulkin-blast-findings-he-improperly-used-taxpayer/330585002/

Department of Veterans Affairs investigators are poised to claim Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and used taxpayers' money to pay his wife's airfare during a European trip last summer — findings Shulkin’s lawyers are blasting as questionable and unfair.

The report by the VA inspector general is scheduled to be released sometime this week, but some of its key findings can be inferred from a point-by-point rebuttal drafted by Shulkin's lawyers and obtained by USA TODAY.

The impending report is expected to criticize Shulkin for taking an unnecessary trip, using taxpayers money for tourist activities and using a VA employee to arrange his leisure time.

Shulkin's lawyers criticize the impending report as unfair and inaccurate and suggest the inspector general’s investigation was biased against Shulkin from the start.

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1. My wife got Uggs to donate boots to her Korean War vet clients when she worked at the VA.

The were elderly, still suffering from frostbite and always had cold feet. As an employee, the VA wouldn’t let her accept the boots for them.