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VA Employee Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Almost $200K in Unauthorized Purchases

A federal employee and his accomplice have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to resell electronic and digital devices that were purchased with a government-issued credit card. Dustin Jagger, 41, of Canton, Ohio, and Damarco McKinley, 26, of Cleveland, were each sentenced to 12 months and 1 day in prison. Each defendant was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release. Additionally, Jagger was ordered to pay $198,183.84 in restitution, which includes $29,124.56 to be paid joint and several with McKinley. According to court documents, Jagger worked for the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), where he used his position as a logistics employee to purchase $198,183.84 worth of iPads, iPhones, and other electronics and goods. Jagger kept some items while reselling others for cash through an online marketplace website. He sold a portion of these items to McKinley, who was stopped on a traffic violation in Indiana while in possession of more than $29,000 worth of electronics that Jagger purchased with the VAMC credit card. McKinley had been on route to Chicago to resell the items.