Roberts v. Dept. Of Veterans Affairs

O’MALLEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the severance of a veteran’s service-connected benefits based on a finding of fraud. Specifically, a Department of Veterans’ Affairs (“VA”) regional office (“RO”) severed veteran Keith A. Roberts’s benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”) after an investigation revealed that Roberts provided fraudulent statements in connection with his claim. Those fraudulent statements related to the sole in-service stressor the RO identified when awarding benefits in 1998. As it relates to this appeal, the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (“Board”) found…