Phoenix VA Executives Put a Crown on a "Proven" Harasser — Then Made Him One of Them… Multiple Times
DATELINE: At the Phoenix VA Health Care System (PVAHCS), a VA Federal Law Enforcement Supervisory Official found responsible for racial discrimination and sexual harassment regularly sits proudly in “Executive Leadership” morning meetings — smiling and laughing as if the findings never happened. Leadership has decided the substantiated record does not matter.
THE FACE OF LEADERSHIP AT THE PHOENIX VA?
Imagine this: a Federal Police Leadership official the agency itself (including a member of the current PVAHCS "Executive Leadership") found responsible for racial discrimination and sexual harassment sits with the highest officials at the Phoenix VA Health Care System — the very face of the organization — regularly in the mornings.
There is laughter. There are light witty jokes. There are easy smiles. The room feels comfortable.
THEY LAUGH - HE STAYS.
That same official carries two completed findings. One is a sustained finding that he committed sexual harassment by simulating a sexual act ("MASTERBATION") toward a young female VA employee. The other is a posted violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after the VA’s Office of Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication held the agency liable for a racially hostile work environment based on race against a former Black officer. Both findings are finished. Neither is under review.
THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SUBSTANTIATED IT
The executives sitting at that table are not strangers to these facts. Some of them are the same officials who substantiated the sexual harassment finding themselves. For years — from at least 2022 until the 2025–2026 transition — this same leadership group held direct responsibility for the police department.
- They knew. They had oversight. They had authority.
Yet nothing meaningful changed. The official remained in a supervisory seat. The meetings continued. The smiles continued. The laughter continued.
AND THEY GAVE HIM A CROWN
As recently as July 13, the agency went further. They put a crown on the same supervisory official — the one carrying substantiated findings of racial discrimination and sexual harassment — and allowed him to play acting chief for the day. Not quietly. Not privately. In full view of the organization.
DIVERSITY FOR THE CAMERAS
Instead of removing the problem, leadership has chosen to manage the image. In the recent past, Executive Leadership release media featuring Black officers to project diversity while the individual found responsible for discriminating against a person based on race (a Black person) is still welcomed into their morning meetings.
Longevity and familiarity appear to matter more than the findings. Knowing someone a long time has become an excuse to overlook racial discrimination and sexual harassment that occurred under their watch.
THEY TREAT THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT LIKE IT NEVER EXISTED
They Act Like It Never Happened
They treat a Title VII violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as if it is nothing. This is the same law people marched for. The same law Martin Luther King and countless others risked their lives over. The same law that saw Black citizens and White allies beaten, hosed down, attacked by dogs, and dragged through the streets while the nation watched on the evening news.
- Some of you reading this are old enough to remember those images in person.
Yet He Still Sits In The Room.
A VA Police Leadership official found responsible for violating that Act can still sit in the highest executive meetings regularly in the mornings — smiling, laughing, and treated as "one of the executives" in the room.
Why They Looked The Other Way
Because Executive Leadership did not believe a "Powerless Black man." Because they did not believe the Women who reported sexual harassment. Because they did not believe the Individuals who sacrificed their careers by opposing harassment and discrimination. In the culture of this "Executive Leadership," speaking up is treated as weakness, and the police department’s preferred narrative is treated as truth.
They treat the substantiated record as something that can simply be forgotten while they sit, smile, and carry on.
THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE
This is not confusion. This is not delay. This is a deliberate choice to keep a police supervisory official with two agency-substantiated findings of racial discrimination and sexual harassment inside the highest levels of Executive Leadership — and to reward him with an "Acting Chief" title — as recently as July 13.
BIGGEST QUESTION
- What is wrong with the Phoenix VA Health Care System, its Executive Leadership, and its Director’s office?
- Do they want to be associated with substantiated racial discrimination and sexual harassment — findings their own organization made?
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Concerned Citizens AZ Investigative Team — Creating the Paper Trail Phoenix VA Phoenix Health Care System's leadership team Will One Day Wish Didn’t Exist.
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