officers say 38 year-old javier soto hid video cameras in various rest rooms through 2012 and this year. officers confiscated video evidence from soto but so far there is no evidence that the videos were shared on line new information on the story we brought you last year, pennsylvania attorney general's office reached a settlement with a wedding videographer who received 38 consumer complaints. that settlement resolves allegation that is videographer kenneth stillman failed to provide videos to clients. under terms of the settlement still man is required to hand over any wedding videos he still has, to the couple's weddings he shot. he also must pay restitution to eligible couples, as well as civil penalties to the commonwealth. >>> you have some nice, numbers on that forecast, yes, kate, oh, my. >> today is gorgeous. weekend is more steamy, more like july is normally for us but next week we have a return to comfort. it has been a treat this july. we have had a few days like today that have been comfortable, low humidity, generally cool this time of the year. we have another stretch ne

javier soto. what recourse did you have? i assume your remember. >> yes. >> okay. essentially we are still trying to figure out what happened. what i believe is that retaliation for the whistleblowing we have problems with claim processing. there is no other way to address them. we found ourselves in that strange this situation where we have to rely on the union to help. that brought conflict. >> server. >> well, i am actually the president of local 520. and we have been -- as a matter of fact, in june of 2012 we had a rally to bring attention to what was going on. the va police department had cameras and video trying to intimidate us so -- >> sure. in your testimony you talked about as a lawyer that in your free time you were defending fellow employees that were for one reason or another having difficulties with va leaders. can you speak to that end what representation or access to representation there would have had from the union as well? >> the main problem with the union is that it takes forever to get anything resolved. like i mentioned before, i have an admo

investigators say 38 year-old javier soto hid video cameras in various rest rooms between 2012 and this year. now officers confiscated video evidence from soto but so far there is no evidence that the videos were shared, on line. >>> merck is cutting 600 jobs in north wales and lansdale by the end of next movement the reorganization will save the company, they tell us, two and a half billion dollars. 8500 employees, will lose their jobs, and that is 10 percent of the company's total work force. now most of those positions are fieldworkers who visit family doctors in medical facilities. the cuts take effect, august 26th. >>> and new information on a story we first brought you, last year, the pennsylvania attorney general's office reached a settlement with a wedding videographer who received 83 consumer complaints. the settlement revolves allegation that is videographer kenneth the stillman have of bucks county failed to provide wedding videos to clients. under the terms, of the settlement, still man is required to hand over any video that he still has to those couples whose wedding he sh

investigators say 38 year-old javier soto hid the video cameras in various rest rooms between 2012 andhis year. now officers, confiscated video evidence from soto but so far there is in evidence that the the videos were shared on line. >>> also merck is cutting 600 jobs in north wales and lansdale by the end of next month. the reorganization will save the company they say two and a half billion dollars, 8500 employees will be losing their jobs. that is 10 percent of the company's total work force. now most of those positions are fieldworkers who visit family doctors and medical facilities. the cuts we are told will take effect august 26th. >>> we have new information, on a story we brought you last year. the pennsylvania attorney general's office reached a settlement with a wedding videographer who received 83 consumer complaints. now the the settlement resolves allegation that is videographer kenneth stillman of bucks county failed to provide wedding videos to client. under the terms of the settlement stillman is required to hand over any wedding rid joost he still has to the couples

javier soto. what recourse did you have? i assume your remember. >> yes. >> okay. essentially we are still trying to figure out what happened. what i believe is that retaliation for the whistleblowing we have problems with claim processing. there is no other way to address them. we found ourselves in that strange this situation where we have to rely on the union to help. that brought conflict. >> server. >> well, i am actually the president of local 520. and we have been -- as a matter of fact, in june of 2012 we had a rally to bring attention to what was going on. the va police department had cameras and video trying to intimidate us so -- >> sure. in your testimony you talked about as a lawyer that in your free time you were defending fellow employees that were for one reason or another having difficulties with va leaders. can you speak to that end what representation or access to representation there would have had from the union as well? >> the main problem with the union is that it takes forever to get anything resolved. like i mentioned before, i have an admo

. >> you heard javier soto's comment earlier in response to our questioning that he was let go on june 30 without being given a reason from the st. petersburg regional office. regional office. area where that's? >> congressman lamborn was made aware of it in the hearing tonight. >> okay and he was not given any reason. he got the letter on june 30. on the 24th of june he had given a report and i believe this was on behalf of local afge 1594 somewhat critical of the leadership on how they process the claims. and let's see, six days later he is fired without being given a cause. is this a normal activity or something out of the ordinary? >> congressman and this is not a normal activity. i will look into the very specifics of it. i will not discuss out of protection for mr. support any specific issues associated with this employment. >> it sounds to me like we could have the whistleblower here who is being retaliated against. that's a really serious matter to all of us on this committee because we want whistleblowers to come forward when there something going on wrong but the public needs

officers say 38 year old javier men deal soto hid the video cameras between 2012 and this your.fficers confiscated video evidence from him. so far no evidence those videos were posted online. new at 11:00, merck is cutting 600 jobs in north wales and lansdowne. merck and company is looking to cut $2.5 billion. so they decided to shed 8500 employees. that is 10% of the company's total work force. most of those positions are field workers who visit family doctors and medical facilities. those cuts will take effect august 26th. >> none other than archbishop charles chaput provides a boost in the ants paying of a possible papal visit to philadelphia. but while has latest comments are promising the deal isn't done just yet. >> the words from philadelphia archbishop charles chaput sounded concrete. the cath look news service quoted chaput at a conference in north dakota on thursday saying "poe francis has told me that he is coming". and the pope will be with us the friday, saturday and sunday of that week. chaput is referring to the world meeting of families set for september 2015. th

javier soto a whistleblower who testified at the hearing. mr.oto raised serious concerns about retaliatory actions and mismanagement and it is incumbent upon the commission to a investigate those allegations. instead of being open on some of the process about mr. soto's removal the va has equivocated stonewalled and changed its story and instructed members of this committee in what appears to be an attempted coverup and i say appears to be an attempted cover-up of bas retaliation about mr. soto. we are prepared to subpoena the documents if that's what it takes. we have got to get compliance with the multiple requests we have paid to the department. i could not agree with you more that the department needs to earn back the trust of veterans, their families, the veteran service organizations, members of congress and the american people to deliver decisive and truthful action. the recent scandals that have tarnished trust in the v-8 on her affliction of a broken system that didn't just happen overnight. nor can it be fixed overnight. upon stepping

javier soto, a whistleblower who testified at that hearing. mr. soto raise very series of concerns about both retaliatory action and mismanagement of the same beach our own. it is incumbent upon this committee to investigate those allegations. but instead being open and honest about the process about mr. soto's removal, va has indicated, stonewalled, changed its story and instructed members of this committee in what appears to be an attempt to cover up and i said appears to be an attempt to cover up be a retaliation about mr. soto. we are prepared to subpoena the documents if that's what it takes. we've got to get compliance over the multiple requests we've made to the department. i could not agree with you more that the department needs to earn back the trust of veterans, families, the veteran service organizations, members of congress, and the american people through deliberate, decisive and truthful action. the recent scandals that have tarnished trust in the va are reflections of a broken system that didn't just happen overnight. nor can it be

you heard javier soto's comments earlier in response to my and other people's questioning, that he was let go on june 30th without being given a reason from the st. petersburg regional office. are you aware of that. >> congressman lamb born i was made aware of it in the hearing tonight. >> okay. . and he was not given any reason. he got the letter on june 30th. on the 24th of june he had given a report. and i believe this was on behalf of local afge 1594, somewhat critical of the leadership on how they processed claims. and then let's see, six days later he's fired without being given a cause. is this a normal activity or something out of the ordinary. >> congressman, this is not a normal activity. i will look into the very specifics of it. i will not discuss out of privacy and protection for mr. soto any specific issues associated with his employment. that would not be respectful. >> please look at that. it sounds to me we could have a whistle blower here whose being retaliative. and that is a serious member because we want whistle blowers to come forward when there is something going

javier soto who served as a rating veteran service representative and the executive vice president of local afge 1594 in my home state, the great state of florida, under the supervision of the st. petersburg regional office. the second panel we're going to have will contain government witness in the following order. miss linda holliday, assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations office of the inspector general, miss holliday is accompanied by mr. brent arronte, director of san diego benefits inspections division office of audits and evaluation. next will be vba to include the honorable allison a. hickey undersecretary for benefits and she is accompanied by miss diana rubens, director of the philadelphia regional office, who is the former deputy undersecretary for field operations as well as mr. thomas murphy, director of compensation service and finally, we will hear from mr. daniel bertone, director education work force and income security with the u.s. government accountability office. so i now acknowledge our first panel who is already seated, yield to our colleague, mr

. >> you heard javier soto's comment earlier in response to our questioning that he was let go on june 30 without being given a reason from the st. petersburg regional office. regional office. area where that's? >> congressman lamborn was made aware of it in the hearing tonight. >> okay and he was not given any reason. he got the letter on june 30. on the 24th of june he had given a report and i believe this was on behalf of local afge 1594 somewhat critical of the leadership on how they process the claims. and let's see, six days later he is fired without being given a cause. is this a normal activity or something out of the ordinary? >> congressman and this is not a normal activity. i will look into the very specifics of it. i will not discuss out of protection for mr. support any specific issues associated with this employment. >> it sounds to me like we could have the whistleblower here who is being retaliated against. that's a really serious matter to all of us on this committee because we want whistleblowers to come forward when there something going on wrong but the public needs

javier so tow faces 21 counts of criminal violation of privacy. investigators say there are 40 victims that have come forward so far. but they expect more, and they expect more charges to come against sotoey say the hidden cameras were found in bathroom stalls in five different buildings around campus. 1500 videos files were confiscated and it looked like they were not posted online or shared with others. the university has done a sweep of campus and say they have found all the cameras. they plan to add security when the 23,000 students return in the fall. here's what some of those students are saying after getting an e-mail about the arrest today. >> it's disturbing knowing he did it more than one bathroom and like you had to take the time out to plan all that stuff out. just really scary. >> how does no one notice that for such a long duration of time and like it's just -- it's kind of sick that like someone just -- would stockpiling all these images and stuff over such a long period of time. it's good they finally got him. >> reporter: now the university is offering counseling to students who may need it because of what has happened here with the violation of privacy. they also have