New disclosures and investigations are straining the three Trump associates’ relationship with the new VA secretary.
by Isaac Arnsdorf
Newly released emails about the three Trump associates who secretly
steered the Department of Veterans Affairs show how deeply the trio was
involved in some of the agency’s most consequential matters, most
notably a multibillion-dollar effort to overhaul electronic health records for millions of veterans.
Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter, West Palm Beach
physician Bruce Moskowitz and lawyer Marc Sherman — part of the
president’s circle at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — reviewed a
confidential draft of a $10 billion government contract for the
electronic-records project, even though they lack any relevant
expertise.
In preparing the contract, the agency consulted more than 40 outside
experts, such as hospital executives, according to the records, which
were released under the Freedom of Information Act. The Mar-a-Lago trio
were listed among those experts. Perlmutter, a comic book tycoon,
appears on the list between representatives from the University of
Washington Medical Center, Intermountain Healthcare and Johns Hopkins
University.
But none of the three men has served in the U.S. military or
elsewhere in government, and none of them has expertise in health
information technology or federal contracting.
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Source: ProPublica
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