US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced on Thursday that Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care facility director Sharon Helman, Associate Director Lance Robinson and an unidentified third employee had been placed on administrative leaves following reports that the facility keeps a secret waiting list, which is part of a scheme to explain the long wait time to provide medical care to US veterans, CNN reported.
A copy of a letter from the US Justice Department that Bloomberg News was able to retrieve indicated that the federal agency has ended its probe on Chesapeake Energy Corp and Encana Corp from claims that both engaged in attempting to monopolize shale drilling auctions.
Billionaire Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp was able to secure a court order that would block the Russian rocket engine purchases of a Boeing Co-Lockheed Martin Corp venture.