For those of you who missed
it, we had gripping VA drama
playing out here in Albany
NY that was overshadowed
by a sinister news media
who did their best to confuse
and conceal what was really
a straight forward story
about murdered veterans
at a VA Hospital by a phoney
and fake employee who was
almost successfully protected
by the VA itself.

Former VAMC employee Paul
Kornak was given a lousy
6 year sentence, for killing
five.... that's right....5
veterans who were staying
at the hospital, and this
joke of a mandate was issued
by another Army veteran
himself, Judge Frederick Scullin.
Scullin is notorious in these
parts of the country for
being the biggest pile of
crap going when it comes to
justice for our Veterans
so the fact that he gave
Paul Kornak a mere pittance
of a one year per murder
sentence really did not
come as any surprise to
those of us who live here.

The summarized story of
Paul Kornak goes something
like this.......

Paul Kornak never finished
medical school but somehow
managed to get hired with
fake medical credentials
at the VAMC here in Albany,NY,
He was placed in the Cancer
Care unit and began signing
his papers as Dr. Paul
Kornak, and represented
himself throughout the
hospital in this same way.

He began falsifying the
paperwork of veterans staying
in the cancer care clinic
and entered the patients
into drug treatment clinical
trials which they were not
eligible to be in. {As Kornak's
trial progressed, it also
came out that he had falsified
the patient records of 65
other veterans, but I digress.}

2 VA Pharmacists began to
notice the lethal dosing
that was being issued to
the Veterans. They made
attempts to intervene and
were stopped. The 5 Veterans
died....bingity, bangity, boom!
The 2 Pharmacists went
to the Administrators to
report the lethal dosing,
and were promptly fired
from their jobs. Yup --
that's right, they were
FIRED !

They went to the FBI to
tell their story, and
wrote complaints to the
VA Inspector General's
Office. All they got
was 3 full minutes of dead
air just before the crickets
start to chirp!!

It was only after the
Pharmacists went out
to the news media with
other employees, that
the FBI finally agreed
to review the case.

Paul Kornak was taken
into federal custody
on a 41 count grand
jury indictment shortly
after that.

The Times Union newspaper
at http://www.timesunion.com
did their best from week
to week to skew and change
the original story that
the 2 Pharmacists were shunned
by all authorities at the
beginning of the crisis.

The phoney baloney VAMC
Director, Mary Ellen Fache-Piche
even had the stones to grandstand
in a phoney press conference
of sorts with the U.S. Attorney
{talking about patient care
and justice} to spin the
entire story away from
themselves. The news media
fully cooperated with this
pile of crap news conference
even though it had been all
over the area prior to that
that the Administration fired
the Pharmacists.

The 2 fired pharmacists were
eventually hired back into
their jobs, but only after
a considerable lawyer expense
to do so.

They also became our Grand
Marshalls for the Memorial
Day parade for that year too.
Here comes the Mayor,
followed by the Grand Marshalls,
followed by the VA administrators,
followed by an entire batallion
of VA nurses who were loudly
blowing on whistles that they
had in their mouths. What
a sight, and we all roared
with laughter on the sides of
the street.

Paul Kornak pleaded guilty
to the indictment. In exchange
for that, the government
gave him a lousy one year
per murder of a Veteran,
a total of 71 months.
He is in his 50's now, and
he will be 60 or so when
he is released.

The families had to take
out second mortgages on their
houses to pay for lawyer
bills in a civil action
against Kornak. The family
lawyers used the Nuremburg
Treaty of the Nazi era as
the main body of law for
their pleadings. No word
has ever been in the press
about the results of the
civil action.

The archives feature of
the Times Union website is
hard to use. If you Google
out the Paul Kornak story,
you will find that the story
began as front page headline
news, and then quickly shifted
to smaller articles in the
back pages where they would
be less noticed. Then with
each new article, the original
reported facts of the case
were overwritten, and then
overwritten again and again
so that by the time Kornak
was convicted and sentenced,
the murder of the 5 Veterans
almost seemed like small
potatos. Nothing to it,
ho-hum.

Apparently the bonehead
judge was on the same page
with the orchestrated effort
to diminish the importance
of what had really happened.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy
of all is that not one
single Veterans organization
was at the string of hearings
to give support to the family
members. No DAV, no VFW,
and no American Legion. On
the day of the sentencing,
one of the widows did the
TV news interviews entirely
alone by herself. There
wasn't an organizational
hat anywhere to be found
next to her.

There was no effort by the
news media in Albany, and
especially by the Times
Union, to reach out and
get "reaction" statements
from anyone at all in the
Veterans community. I
had personally submitted
a Letter To The Editor
about the Paul Kornak case,
and the letter never got
published.

Even more disturbing is
that Paul Kornak had an
accomplice, a Dr. George
Holland, who was fired
from the VAMC at the
same time that Paul Kornak
was, but managed to flee
the area and relocate
somewhere in the state
of Georgia, and is
continuing to practice
medicine. Whoa!

If this story isn't your
wake-up call that we
are all in extreme danger
inside of this system,
then I don't know what is.


Talk about your PTSD.....
WHEW !!!!!

REPLY:

Of course, your last name is Kornak at
the college of St. Rose so that would
make you an "impartial" commentary on
what I have entered. Just so the readers
catch the details of who you are. And
you are responding to a Post that was
entered in the year 2005 some 3 years ago.
I rest my case. Several articles have
emerged and been posted since then
at this Forum, all of which have
substantiated what I have said.
I am sorry that your family relative
has let you down. We are not looking
to bring you into this discussion
or to take issue with the family while
he is doing jail time.

you clearly are ignorant to the case yourself,check your facts.

6 years is a long time, enough to miss two high school graduations, college tours and 6 years of memories