VA fires Phoenix execs after 2 years of investigations

By

Carten Cordell

Sloan D. Gibson, nominee to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, testifying before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs on November, 6, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Colin Kelly / Staff)

The long, complex saga of the Phoenix VA scandal took another twist on June 7 when the Department of Veterans Affairs fired three executives tied to the patient-wait time controversy that has enveloped the agency for the past two years.