2008: VA's Deputy IG allowed to retire despite several documented instances of masturbating in full view of the public. This explains much!

CPO Andy Carrillo, MS — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:13:00 -0500

How could the VA become one of the most scandal-ridden federal agencies in recent history? The following article provides valuable insights into the moral decay of the VA's Deputy Inspector General's office and the trickle down effect on the organization he was assigned to police. Watch for the world-class understatement cleverly inserted within the body of this report.

"In July 2005, with [Jon] Wooditch as acting IG, his staff released a national audit of outpatient scheduling that mentioned false appointment dates were being entered and that secret waiting lists existed, but merely recommended better training and monitoring. The VA wait-list scandal erupted into the national headlines in 2013 and led to the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shenseki in 2014. Congressional investigations of the scandal continue to this day.

Wooditch seemed to have had his hands full with other matters.

He was caught with porn on his work computer in 2003, but VA officials only “counseled” him. Not long afterward, he was promoted to the top job, which he had for about six months. He returned to his post as deputy IG after the Senate confirmed George J. Opfer as permanent IG in November 2005.

Wooditch retired with a federal pension without ever facing administrative discipline or criminal charges. He had testified repeatedly before Congress about integrity at the VA.

Bizarrely, instead of sitting on the complaint [filed by teachers to whom he had exposed himself over the course of a week], Wooditch assigned an investigative unit to track down the offender, as if he either wanted to be caught or didn’t think the IG apparatus would pursue the matter. After surveillance video led investigators to their own boss, the investigation was turned over to the Department of Interior IG. When he was questioned by DOI IG agents, Wooditch “vehemently” denied wrongdoing and called the witnesses “mistaken.” He said, “I do not admit to doing it. I don’t think I did it… I don’t remember even being in there,” according to the report. He refused to take a lie detector test. “Agents asked Wooditch why, given that the VA-OIG routinely employed the polygraph, he did not believe in its accuracy. Wooditch stated, ‘I don’t trust the machines.'”

DOI IG agents also learned during their investigation of a separate incident in Wooditch’s hometown of LeMoyne, Pa. In 2006, they were told, he made an “inappropriate advance” on his next-door neighbor as she was grieving her husband’s death. “She thwarted Wooditch’s romantic advances. Approximately a day or two later, she said Wooditch began to pose nude and masturbate in front of a window that was only viewable from her house” repeatedly, the report said. The woman was one of his wife’s closest friends, and “did not want to file a formal complaint, based on her friendship with Wooditch’s wife,” but did have police warn him to stop. Wooditch lectured the police that he was a “high-level government employee.” When confronted with this additional incident, Wooditch turned in his retirement paperwork. Reached by phone by The Daily Caller News Foundation at home, Wooditch denied everything, saying “I don’t have any comment at all. I didn’t resign, I just retired. I don’t even know what you’re talking about. I’ve never heard that, I’ve never done that.” Federal officials stalled on releasing the IG report after it was sought more than two years ago by this reporter in a Freedom of Information Act request. The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained the report last week through a source who is a current government employee.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/06/va-cop-chose-the-wrong-beat/#ixzz3uMGQUye5

Top VA Watchdog Resigned After Being Caught Masturbating On The Job

Jon Wooditch, the Department of Veterans Affairs' former top watchdog, resigned after being caught masturbating in the agency’s all-glass conference room in full view of people across the street, in