Ex-FBI Agent’s Plea Puts Crypto Theft at $2.47 Million, Over Twice What He First Told the FBI

Patrick Steven Yaroch , a 37-year-old former FBI agent from Ashburn, Va., pleaded guilty on Nov. 5 to wire fraud and money laundering over the theft of about $2.47 million in crypto, taken with wallet credentials he could access on FBI systems, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced . No later than December 2024, Yaroch began moving funds out of wallets whose credentials were linked to 35 separate FBI investigations , eventually making about 100 fraudulent transfers , prosecutors said. His targets included subjects of other probes and adversarial nation state actors, plus at least one wallet the FBI built for an operation.

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