U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General

Anyone who exploits VA programs and services for personal profit will be found and will be held fully accountable.

The VAOIG remains committed to working alongside our law enforcement partners to uncover complex fraud schemes and to protect our nation's veterans.

Now, the person in question is Brett Blackman.

He's 43 of Johnson County, Kansas.

It started as a private Facebook group, and then ended up growing to one of the top five fastest growing nonprofits in the country.

But what happened is in 2023, we got a knock at the door, and, uh, there were two VA OIG agents, uh, who come in the headquarters, and said they wanted to talk to me and have a little conversation.

Um, we started a conversation.

I didn't realize who they were at the time.

And so then I asked them to disclose who they were, because at this point, they didn't let me know who they were.

They didn't identify themselves as federal agents for the VA Office of Inspector General.

What kind of questions were they asking you that tipped you off?

Yeah, so they were asking me, you know, what my role was there.

Veterans should check their own eligibility with VA before scheduling non-emergency dental treatment, on the assumption that the Department will pay.

The second development is a VA Office of Inspector General review issued on September 22, 2026.

The official report, No. 25-03033-230, is titled, Review of Contracts Terminated for Convenience.

Investigators reviewed 2,210 contract actions considered during the 2025 cancellation campaign and found that 435 were terminated, with a combined total contract value of about $1.1 billion.

Now, we fast forward to September 22, 2026.

The VA Office of Inspector General released a review looking at what actually happened during the contract cutting process.

And this is where the numbers start getting interesting.

The Inspector General examined 2,210 contract actions that had been reviewed for possible elimination.