FBI Agent Charged With Stealing $900K in Crypto From Nation-State Accounts
Patrick Steven Yaroch, a supervisory FBI counterintelligence agent detailed to the U.S. intelligence community, was arrested and charged on August 3, 2026 with interstate transportation and receipt of stolen goods. According to CNN (Sean Lyngaas) and NBC News (Gary Grumbach, Ryan J. Reilly, and Michael Kosnar), prosecutors allege Yaroch made up to a dozen unauthorized transfers totaling more than $900,000 in cryptocurrency from accounts the FBI was monitoring because of their ties to Russia. Key Takeaways FBI supervisory counterintelligence agent Patrick Steven Yaroch was charged on August 3, 2026 with allegedly stealing more than $900,000 in cryptocurrency from Russia-linked wallets under F…
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