White Coat Waste Project has filed a lawsuit against the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia for unlawfully withholding critical information related to its deadly and wasteful experiments on puppies, which have been widely criticized by Congress and taxpayers. The story first broke in The Daily Caller.

In January 2017, WCW requested information from the McGuire VAMC through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding their use of dogs in cruel experiments that have consistently violated federal animal welfare laws. The VAMC responded in March 2017 by providing documents with details about the facility’s use of puppies in four painful forced heart attack experiments and other deadly cardiac-related studies.

However, the VA unjustifiably redacted certain crucial information from the documents about these wasteful and abusive experiments, including:

• Project titles
• Names of lead experimenters
• Funding source/s
• Dog vendors

As WCW Executive Director Julie Germany stated:

We’re suing the Department of Veterans Affairs because taxpayers have a right to know who’s paying the bills, who’s cashing the checks and who’s responsible for abusing puppies in wasteful heart attack experiments at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Read News 8 Richmond (WRIC) coverage of the lawsuit.