Breitbart News has learned that several top officials at Tennessee's Department of Veterans Affairs have resigned amid an internal investigation and a broader congressional investigation into sexual misconduct allegations.
Congressional investigators say the man who resigned (who he did not name to Breitbart News, but sources said was a biomedical employee in the bargaining unit) was a woman who worked at the Mountain Home VA Medical Center in Tennessee. It was discovered that he had had sexual relations with her several dozen times.. In fact, Congressional investigators told Breitbart News that one man slept with more than 32 women who worked there. The man and several women allegedly bragged about their exploits in an online group forum on a government communications portal used by Veterans Affairs employees. To communicate with you about veterans' medical care and facility operations.
In addition, people familiar with the congressional investigation told Breitbart News that the investigation revealed an orgy involving at least 12 employees working at the facility. It is unclear at this time whether the orgy occurred on government land at the veterans facility or off-site, but the orgy was reportedly carried out by more than a dozen government employees employed there. The fact alone is surprising.
Regardless of the location of the orgy, at least two employees of the facility admitted to having sex on VA hospital grounds.
“The fact that the culture would allow something like this to happen in the first place is completely outrageous, and it all starts at the top,” a senior Congressional aide with knowledge of the ongoing investigation told Breitbart News on Tuesday. told.
The scandal threatens to upend the final years of outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden's administration and could involve senior officials such as Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough. McDonough served as former President Barack Obama's White House chief of staff during his second term before being later named by Biden to be his administration's secretary of veterans affairs. Former President Donald Trump, who won a landslide victory in the 2024 presidential election and became the next president again, nominated former Congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) to lead the VA in the next administration. Collins may face serious challenges on this front for the Biden administration, which takes office after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate, likely early next year.
As the investigation intensified, the biomedical employee — a man who investigators say had sex with 32 different women who worked there — along with several other employees resigned. The director of the Mountain Home facility also resigned, as did at least two other employees.
The story first surfaced over the summer, when the House Veterans Affairs Committee, through its chairman, Rep. Michael Bost (R-Ill.), sent a letter to McDonough announcing that the committee was looking into the matter. . Then in September the boss more demanded I provided the information and asked further questions about the matter.
In a letter to McDonough in September, Bost said that since his initial letter in July, “whistleblowers have communicated with commission staff to report sexual harassment, sexual assault, and inappropriate behavior at Mountain Home.” “We have provided further details and information regarding further allegations in the relationship.” The VA is said to have failed to adequately address issues that the facility's leadership had not previously made known to commission staff. ”
“This new information is extremely disturbing and the committee believes there may be serious cultural issues at the Mountain Home VA,” Bost wrote.
According to local news reports on the matter in September, the investigation spans both sides of the Capitol. noticed Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who apparently represents the states affected by the incident, said she supported an investigation into wrongdoing.
“The allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault at the Mountain Home Veterans Affairs Medical Center are serious and disgusting, and American taxpayers deserve thorough and immediate answers from the Inspector General's ongoing investigation,” Blackburn said at the time. I have a right to it.” “This is not the first time the Veterans Administration has been the subject of a scandal under the Biden-Harris Administration, and the parties responsible must be held accountable.”
Congressional investigators are currently investigating the matter further, and more details are likely to be leaked to the public. It is also unclear whether this culture of depravity extends beyond this VA facility in Tennessee to other hospitals and facilities across the country.
