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VA deaths investigation takes time, patience.

One of the most common questions being asked about the suspicious deaths at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Hospital in Clarksburg is, “Why hasn’t anyone been arrested? It’s an understandable question given what the public has learned about the horrific case. At least ten veterans, and perhaps more, died under suspicious circumstances while undergoing treatment

VA hospital leaders allowed lapses that led to veterans’ deaths. Then they got other jobs

Lapses in oversight allowed veterans to be killed by a night shift nursing aide at a West Virginia veterans hospital, a federal probe concluded, but the leaders who allowed those lapses haven’t been fired. Instead, they have been shifted to jobs in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA announced last Christmas Eve that