Sentences with phrase «general found shulkin»
The inspector general found Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and taxpayer - funded airfare for his wife for the 10 - day trip in July, and he and his chief of staff misled VA ethics officials while seeking official approval for the tickets and flights.
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Shulkin asked an aide beforehand to plan the leisure activities with his wife, arrangements that required an «extensive use of official time,» the inspector general found.
Investigators from the VA inspector general's office found Shulkin wrongly accepted Wimbledon tickets and airfare for his wife at taxpayers» expense during a trip to London and Denmark last July.
Yet another Trump administration official is facing ethics questions after an inspector general's report found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets, and that his chief of staff misled officials about Shulkin's wife's travel to Europe last summer.
WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said he regrets mistakes he and others made during travel planning and ethics clearance processes that led to findings by the VA inspector general that he had misused taxpayer resources during a European trip last year.
His chief of staff, Viveca Wright Simpson, made false representations to a VA ethics lawyer and altered an official email to secure approval for taxpayer funding of Shulkin's wife's flights, which cost more than $ 4,000, the VA inspector general found.