Former FBI agent admits to stealing crypto from fraud victims and hackers
A former FBI agent has pleaded guilty to taking nearly $2.5 million from the cryptocurrency wallets of fraud victims and nation-state hackers under investigation. Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, worked on an FBI Boston Division national security investigative squad from 2017 to 2025 and later served as a supervisory special agent in the FBI Headquarters Counterintelligence and Espionage Division from February 2025 to July 2026. His arrest came on July 31…