U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by the Department of Justice that charges have been filed against a former Department of Veterans Affairs employee in Augusta, Ga., for alleged falsification of the medical records of numerous VA patients. 

“While I regret that the alleged criminal actions by this indicted VA employee ever took place, I am pleased that the investigation we called for in the wake of the Phoenix scandal is being done and people are being held accountable for manipulating medical appointment records when they should have been giving our veterans access to the care they need and deserve,” Isakson said. 

The Department of Justice unsealed a 50-count indictment against Cathedral Henderson, the former Chief of Fee Basis over non-VA Care at the Augusta VA. The indictment alleges that Henderson falsified the medical records of numerous veterans to make the records show that the veterans had received medical services or refused medical services.