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VA chief becomes latest member of Trump Cabinet in trouble for high-priced travel
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, traveling on what he said was an "essential" trip to London and Copenhagen, improperly accepted tickets to the Wimbledon tennis tournament and brought his wife at taxpayer expense, according to an inspector general's report released Wednesday.
The scathing report says Shulkin and several top staff members made false and misleading statements both to justify the $122,334 trip and to defend it afterward. His chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, doctored an email to convince an agency ethics lawyer to approve a $4,300 flight for Shulkin's wife, the report found.
Another aide devoted "many hours" to arrange tourist activities for Shulkin and his wife, "time that should have been spent conducting official VA business and not for providing personal travel concierge service," the report said.
The scathing report says Shulkin and several top staff members made false and misleading statements both to justify the $122,334 trip and to defend it afterward. His chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, doctored an email to convince an agency ethics lawyer to approve a $4,300 flight for Shulkin's wife, the report found.
Another aide devoted "many hours" to arrange tourist activities for Shulkin and his wife, "time that should have been spent conducting official VA business and not for providing personal travel concierge service," the report said.
VA chief becomes latest member of Trump Cabinet in trouble for high-priced travel
