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As scandals swirl around the Department of Veterans Affairs and investigators look for evidence of cover-ups and cooking the books at 26 VA medical facilities nationwide, morale has slumped in one office at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center. Quarrels involving a North Las Vegas VA Medical Center staff member and volunteers with the Voluntary Services chief have erupted into profanity-laced exchanges, physical threats and allegations of fudging donation reports.

An elderly blind veteran crying in pain spent four hours and 45 minutes in the emergency room of the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas before seeing a doctor in October, but federal inspectors said in a report Wednesday that such long waits were not unusual for patients at the hospital.