VA employee pleads guilty to CPAP scheme
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:43 AM CDT, Tue August 17, 2021
ATLANTA – Kevin Rumph Jr., a Department of Veterans Affairs employee, has pleaded guilty to using his department-issued credit card to buy more than $1.9 million worth of CPAP equipment between 2013 and 2021, which he then stole and sold. Rumph worked in the VA’s Prosthetic Department at its Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) located at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, where his duties included purchasing a wide variety of medical equipment. Rumph used his government-issued purchase card to make unauthorized purchases of CPAP supplies from a supplier in Alabama which he then sold to a vendor located in Ohio. “As a VA employee, Rumph’s job was to serve those who served and protected our nation,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Kurt R. Erskine. “His greed was a betrayal of trust that deprived veterans of the scarce resources needed by them to live productive lives.” Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 17.
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