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WandTV: I-TEAM Update: VA Art Purchases Were Made In Illinois /cms/images/spacer.gif

August 1, 2016 05:36 PM
 2016-08-04_13-05-44
 
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I-TEAM Update: VA Art Purchases Were Made In Illinois

Posted: Aug 01, 2016 5:36 PM EDT
By: Doug Wolfe
 
 
 
Decatur – The Veterans Administration has been engaged in some artful spending over the past decade.
 
As the WAND News I-TEAM reported last week government watchdog Open The Books has documented more $20 million spent by the VA for art and art consulting.  Those purchases came while the VA has claimed it is short-staffed and needs more money.
 
U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, (R) Illinois, says some of those art purchases were at VA facilities in central and southern Illinois.  The Danville VA spent $59,204 on artwork while the Marion VA spent $26,821.
 
Kirk has demanded the VA stop the art purchases immediately.
 
Among the more outrageous purchases were at the VA facility in Palo Alto, California where $6.3 million has been spent on art.  The Minneapolis VA Medical Center spent $242,933; Biloxi, MS $168,467; and the Salem facility $148,482.
 
Congress is expected to address the VA art purchases later this year.
 
 
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