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| I said I would put up the press version of the firing of VARO New York City's Chief of the Claims Unit under which my own case has been falsified for a number of years, so here it is complete with a show and tell of documents I was able to put out for public viewing. Joseph Collorafi has been trashing cases big time for at least 5 years that I can put papers to. Incredibly, he was suspended right at the time that my case was moving through processing at the BVA and now at the CVA. Fake and phoney remand orders were written time and time again for medical conditions that I myself was not filing for. In every time that I went up on appeal, I received a whole new lineup of medical conditions listed in the ISSUES section of the ruling, when the whole time and each and every time I was claiming the exact same list of medical diagnostic codes which are both true and fully supported by surgery records and what not. For YEARS, Veterans like me attempted to start a criminal investigation on Joseph Collorafi but was met with rejection letters ---- a whole stack of them, time and time again issued by the VA Inspector Generals Office out of Washington DC. Here is one of many of those rejection letters below after you read the press article on his pending firing. Also here, he was taking VA Form 9, Notice of Appeal Forms, and instead of processing them and moving them upwards to the BVA in Washington, he was instead listing them in the EVIDENCE section of new rulings and sending them back to the Veterans as exampled by my fake ruling paper below. Note that none of those ISSUES medical conditions are what I was actually applying for. I hope you all now come to realize the hazard and peril of sticking big dumb noses into other peoples disability claims, because what is there may NOT exactly be true and until you know for sure that this is what the Veteran was filing on, you are doing a HUGE disservice and injustice by sticking your uninformed noses into other peoples claims. Consider the fact that I am crippled in both legs, wear VAMC issued prosthetics to walk, and yet nowhere on this ISSUES list do you see any discussion of that. You can be sure that my crippling condition is at the top of the list in what I am actually filing my papers for at VA. Also you will see he has listed that I was applying for "steriods" exposure, when in fact, no such thing is even true. He completely made this up. Also here are the 2 cover sheets for the VA Civil Rights complaint forms that I personally issued against Joseph Collorafi last January. And then also, a bungled letter from the Administration telling me they had shuffled the Civil Rights forms into EEO for processing. I think this goes without saying that it is a glaring example of what we continously write about here at this FORUM page and that is psychotic Veterans who then prey upon other Veterans either at the VSO level or at the VA level. This is a known predator in our community, and while some delusional types simply do NOT want to face that this is the reality of todays world, we just cannot go there with you. Exposing this stuff is what we do and you may as well get on the same page with todays realities. I fired VSO's in my case 3 different times, including DAV, because they were intent on forcing me to PROCESS this pile of crap that kept getting over and over again from Joseph Collorafi. Nothing doing I said. Now the VSO's can all go fry in hell for what they have done because the last laugh is on the Veterans who held their ground and found a way to get this dirty bastard fired. You can click on the little Icon in the upper right hand corner of any photo below to enlarge the screen to full size for reading. Let this be a lesson to all, keep on filing, keep on filing. If ya don't succeed in a criminal complaint at one place, then file at another and another. Somewhere along the line you will get lucky and with all of us filing at the same time, we can finally out these dirty bastards together as a community and protect everyone else that he hasn't gotten to yet. _____________________________________ From The Times Union newspaper Albany NY VA official placed on leave Guilderland resident who works at agency's Manhattan office was on suspension By SCOTT WALDMAN, Staff writer First published in print: Thursday, November 13, 2008 A high-ranking U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs administrator from Guilderland has been placed on paid leave in the wake of an investigation into his office. Joseph Collorafi was suspended last month as chief of veterans affairs at the New York City regional VA office, said Keith Thompson, acting director of the office. The investigation revealed that someone in the regional office intentionally entered claim documents from veterans with incorrect dates — called "backdating" — into an internal database, VA spokeswoman Alison Aikele said Wednesday. "They would make it look like they were processing claims faster than they really were," said Aikele, who works in Washington, D.C. Changing the dates made it appear that the management was not "severely underperforming," according to Aikele. She said the leadership of the office in Manhattan was replaced and the individuals who left would not be returning. She maintained that no veterans were affected by the backdating. The VA office in New York City serves 800,000 veterans living in 31 counties. Collorafi, 62, commuted on Amtrak from his home in Guilderland to his job, which pays about $135,000 a year. James O'Neill, the VA's assistant inspector general for investigations, said a subsequent investigation revealed the shredding of documents. "We're looking at a couple of facilities to determine whether the shredding that occurred was intentional or not," O'Neill said. Destroying or altering federal documents could be a criminal offense. O'Neill did not confirm nor deny whether Collorafi's leave was linked to that probe. Collorafi declined repeated requests for comment on this story. His attorney, Peter Noone, said the investigation was not related to Collorafi. "I'm not sure that has anything to do with him," Noone said. This week, two veterans groups filed a lawsuit in District of Columbia federal court claiming the VA takes too long to process disability claims by veterans. The agency averages at least six months per claim, the process can stretch to a year and appeals take up to four years on average, according to the suit filed Monday by the Vietnam Veterans of America and the Veterans of Modern Warfare. In recent weeks, 41 of 57 regional VA offices across the country have come under scrutiny over the possible shredding of supporting evidence in claims filed by veterans. Next week, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Rep. Bob Filner of California, will hold a hearing on the destruction of the records. In 1987, when he was a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, Collorafi was investigated by the FBI amid accusations that Collorafi and another officer, William F. McIntosh, filed requests for training pay for training they did not receive. The alleged incident, which involved a total of $1,500, occurred when Collorafi was director of the New York Guard's recruitment program, a post he held from 1980-85. The outcome of that case was not immediately known. O'Neill said the investigation into shredding at the New York regional office in Manhattan could take months. ___________________________________ END of Times Union Release UPDATE PART 2: At the same time Collorafi was fired at VARO NYC, so was the Regional Director as reported in NewsDay.Com. Unless you were really reaching for this story, it was incredibly missing and absent from the Associated Press version. Those of us here in New York, all knew for a fact that Amberg was in on the corruption at VARO because if ya think about it, the Director is the first place we go when there is a problem in Claims. She was asleep at the wheel at least since 1999 that I can put on paper to the police. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx VA removes leaders of New York regional office BY MARTIN C. EVANS | martin.evans@newsday.com November 23, 2008 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has reassigned the director of its New York regional office after finding that employees there misdated hundreds of claims to make it appear they were being processed on time. Without referring by name to the New York director, Patricia Amberg-Blyskal, VA spokeswoman Alison Aikele said last week that the director and five other top managers were ousted after investigators discovered a pattern of deception in the handling of claims at the regional headquarters at 245 W. Houston St. in Manhattan. "It was systematically enough of a problem that we removed the leadership," Aikele said. The shake-up at the New York regional office, which serves 800,000 vets living in eastern New York State, came as veterans organizations and members of Congress have criticized the federal agency for mishandling, losing or destroying the benefits claims of veterans. "The reports of date changing and document shredding at the N.Y. regional VA office are unacceptable and insulting to those who served our country," said Rep. Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills) in a prepared statement. A summary of an investigation by the VA obtained by Newsday showed that of 20 claims examined by VA investigators at the New York office during a July visit, 16 had been marked with apparently phony dates to suggest their processing had begun within the required seven days of their arrival. A wider audit in August showed that 56.4 percent of claims carried incorrect intake dates, according to the summary, which was dated Nov. 10. According to the summary, several employees told VA investigators that their supervisor had instructed them to enter incorrect dates, and that the practice was widely known. VA investigators also found that the New York office has ignored "significant amounts" of its mail, officials said. An Oct. 6 visit by investigators, for example, turned up 700 pieces of mail that had not been acted upon. Aikele also said investigators recovered at least five documents related to claims that had been improperly placed in shredder bins. On Friday, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) wrote to Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peak, asking to be apprised of the situation in the New York Regional Office. Amberg-Blyskal did not reply to a reporter's requests for an interview. The summary said "the director and assistant director were initially placed on administrative leave but now have been detailed to other work sites to complete assigned projects." Four other managers were placed on administrative leave, according to the summary. Last week, two veterans organizations filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking to force the VA to handle benefits claims more quickly, saying veterans often wait a year before their applications are processed, and as long as four years for appeals. _____________________________________ End of NewsDay.com Release This message has been edited. Last edited by: McClellanVet, |
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