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VA worker reinstated with back pay after missing time due to being in prison for armed robbery

Hot Air ^ | March 22, 2016, 12:05 AM | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on by Hojczyk

When veterans at the Puerto Rico VA hospital come to the social work department seeking counseling and guidance, the secretary greeting them, Elizabeth Rivera Rivera, will be wearing a GPS monitor ankle bracelet, a condition of her probation.

Rivera was driving around Puerto Rico in the middle of the night on a Monday with Rolando Rio Febus and robbed a couple at gunpoint. Rivera was charged with armed robbery and her companion with armed robbery and gun charges.

Rebus bail was set at $2 million due to multiple previous arrests on gun charges. Bail for Rivera was set at $100,000, which she could not pay, leaving her to miss work while she sat in jail.

A Department of Veterans Affairs employee in Puerto Rico was fired after being arrested for armed robbery, but her union quickly got her reinstated  despite a guilty plea  by pointing out that managements labor relations negotiator is a registered sex offender, and the hospitals director was once arrested and found with painkiller drugs

Employees said the union demanded her job back and pointed out that Tito Santiago Martinez, the management-side labor relations specialist in Puerto Rico, who is in charge of dealing with the union and employee discipline, is a convicted sex offender. Martinez reportedly disclosed his conviction to the hospital and VA hired him anyway, reasoning that theres no children in [the hospital], so they figure I could not harm anyone here.

The unions position  that another employee committed a crime and got away with it, so this one should, too  has been upheld by the highest civil service rules arbiters, and has created a vicious Catch-22 where the departments prior indefensible inaction against bad employees has handcuffed it from taking action now against other scofflaws.



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To: Hojczyk

getting paid (by the taxpayers) to rob banks pretty good duty where do I sign up?



by 2 posted onby faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))

To: Hojczyk

words fail



by 3 posted onby BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

To: faithhopecharity

...contact Odungo



by 4 posted onby Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..nevere store a threat you should have eliminated))

To: Hojczyk; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON







[Elizabeth Rivera Rivera] - Does she know Boutros Boutros-Ghali by any chance?

by 5 posted onby SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)

To: Hojczyk

Government bureaucracy management delights in doing this kind of thing. Giving the finger to taxpayers is one of the multitude of enjoyable perks of “government service.”



To: Hojczyk; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ...

Veterans are waiting for basic medical care. Meanwhile, this lady get back pay after being let out of prison for committing a robbery while working for the VA. I don’t recognize my country anymore.



by 7 posted onby Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gaits)

To: Hojczyk

Works just like the private sector does it not? Sometimes I read stories like this and just want to cry. Since only about 10% of VA employees ever wore the uniform, my guess is as a secretary, Elizabeth Rivera Rivera is just a bureaucrat in the making. Elizabeth Rivera Rivera?????????

Inbreeding?



by 8 posted onby Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)

To: faithhopecharity

robbed a couple at gunpoint According to the ruling, they can now rob banks, and commit murder in the process and keep their job. The VA is in such disarray with all of the Democrats in charge over there.



To: Robert DeLong

this also explains the super-long waiting lines at VA hospitals and clinics (with patients reportedly dying while in the queues) the workers are all out robbing banks on “company time”



by 10 posted onby faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))

To: faithhopecharity

Or other things that do not involve work. Really is disgraceful.



To: Hojczyk

This is why even FDR said that government workers should never be unionized......



To: Tupelo

the VA is a joke....it serves its employees, not its clients...



To: Hojczyk

sounds like you'd have to get caught crawling over your dieing mother to rape your prepubescent mongoloid sister to get fired from a federal union job... and maybe not even then

sounds like you'd have to get caught crawling over your dieing mother to rape your prepubescent mongoloid sister to get fired from a federal union job... and maybe not even then

by 14 posted onby Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)

To: Hojczyk

The VA will fight a Veteran to the death over a nickel, but pays their employees to steal.



by 15 posted onby blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")

To: Clintonfatigued

She’s no lady. Skank is more fitting



by 16 posted onby Gasshog (I chose other women over Hillary - You should too!)

To: faithhopecharity

Try the IRS or Dept. of Justice.



To: Clintonfatigued

Switchboard in DC; ask for the career political opportunist of your choice: 202-224-3121



To: BenLurkin

It’s Puerto Rico.



by 19 posted onby USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)

To: Hojczyk

Good golly, Miss Molly, do we need someone who can say “You’re Fired” or what?



by 20 posted onby NonValueAdded (Buchanan: A note of caution: This establishment is not going quietly.)

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