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The Department of Justice does not intend to investigate the deaths of 40 veterans who were placed on a secret waiting lists at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Arizona any time soon.
Attorney General Eric Holder said the issue was on DOJ's 'radar,' but it would not intervene 'at this time.'
'Well, obviously these reports if they're true are unacceptable, and the allegations are being taken very seriously by the administration,' Holder told reporters on Tuesday.
'But I don't have any announcements at this time with regard to anything that the Justice Department is doing,' he said.
At the center of the scandal is the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System, which CNN reports is partly responsible for the deaths of 40 veterans who were placed on the hospital's secret waiting lists.
VA hospitals are required to see patients within two weeks to a month of their request for an appointment. Between 1,400 to 1,600 veterans were not logged into the VA's official system in a surreptitious plot to hide the hospital's months long wait times, recently retired Pheonix VA doctor Sam Foote told CNN earlier this month.
'They enter information into the computer and do a screen capture hard copy printout. They then do not save what was put into the computer so there's no record that you were ever here,' Foote said.
Employees of the hospital then put the information into a secret electronic waiting list, and shred the printout, he explained, 'And they wouldn't take you off that secret list until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days so it would give the appearance that they were improving greatly the waiting times, when in fact they were not.'
Some veterans waited up to 21 months for appointments, Foote told CNN. And if veterans on the secret list die while waiting for care, VA staff at the hospital remove them from the list so that officials in Washington, D.C. are none the wiser.
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