The Tennessee Star on Friday obtained a video a veteran says shows two staff members at the Amarillo Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System engaged in a sexual activity inside a clean supplies closet, just feet away where he was being treated for a hand injury.
According to data retrieved from the video, it was recorded on August 17, 2022, when the veteran told The Star he was at the Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center to seek treatment for an injury he sustained while working on a dirt bike.
It was recorded and sent to The Star by retired U.S. Army Sergeant Donald Belzer, a 100 percent disabled veteran who was awarded an Army Commendation Medal for valor after his 2004 deployment to Iraq and has remained active in the Amarillo veterans community.
The video, recorded from Belzer’s smartphone, shows the bed and the veteran’s feet, with the camera trained on a door marked “Clean Supplies.” The door is located directly across the hall from where the Belzer waited for the results of medical scans. According to Belzer, this room is where VA staff members typically retrieve linens and other supplies used with patients.
About 55 seconds into Belzer’s recording, a man and a woman are observed leaving the clean supply room without any supplies. The man appeared to be wearing a lanyard while the woman wore scrubs.
While the smartphone’s microphone did not capture decipherable audio from the period the man and women were inside the clean supplies closet, moving shadows are visible underneath the closet door.
A second video Belzer sent to The Star seems to suggest the man and woman, who appear to be VA staff members, were in the clean supplies closet for at least three minutes before leaving at the same time and walking in the same direction.
The veteran told The Star that he filed a complaint with the Amarillo VA prior to leaving the medical center in 2022, but said the VA did not respond to the allegation two staff members engaged in a sex act on VA premises within feet of a patient.
Months later, the veteran told The Star that he filed a second complaint on April 27, 2023, this time through the White House VA Hotline, but Belzer said the federal agency did not respond to the allegation that two staff members engaged in a sex act feet away from him.
The Amarillo VA did not respond to a press inquiry sent by The Star to Dr. Rodney Gonzalez, whose LinkedIn account suggests he has served as the executive director of the facility since 2020. Gonzalez did not respond to questions posed by The Star, including whether the facility investigated the allegations within Belzer’s complaints, or received similar complaints from other veterans. Gonzalez similarly did not state whether the purported employees seen in the video remain employed by the Amarillo VA.
This video surfaces now, through The Star, more than two years after it was recorded, and over 18 months following the latest complaint, after Belzer saw public reporting about the congressional probe investigating alleged sexual misconduct at a the Mount Home VA Medical Center in Tennessee.
According to the December 4 report by Breitbart News, Congress has learned that one man resigned from the VA after it was determined he engaged in sexual relationships with 32 women who worked at the Johnson City, Tennessee medical center.
The outlet additionally reported that VA employees engaged in “an orgy of at least 12 officials,” but that it was not clear where this alleged mass sex act happened.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
