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title: Ex-FBI counterintelligence agent pleads guilty to stealing $2.47M in crypto using wallet credentials the FBI had seized in 35 investigations | ctxsec
url: https://ctxsec.com/items/edva-ex-fbi-agent-yaroch-guilty-2-47m-crypto-from-35-investigations
description: "Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in Alexandria, Va. Prosecutors say that from no later than December 2024 he used FBI systems holding cryptocurrency credentials collected in investigations to make about 100 transfers out of wallets controlled by investigation subjects, adversarial nation-state actors and at least one FBI operational wallet, netting $2,474,380.66, then laundered it. The statement of facts says this compromised multiple criminal and nation-state investigations and FBI sources and methods."
status: "official (U.S. Attorney's Office EDVA press release, Nov 5); sentencing March 4, 2027"
published: 2026-11-07
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> Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in Alexandria, Va. Prosecutors say that from no later than December 2024 he used FBI systems holding cryptocurrency credentials collected in investigations to make about 100 transfers out of wallets controlled by investigation subjects, adversarial nation-state actors and at least one FBI operational wallet, netting $2,474,380.66, then laundered it. The statement of facts says this compromised multiple criminal and nation-state investigations and FBI sources and methods.

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official (U.S. Attorney's Office EDVA press release, Nov 5); sentencing March 4, 2027

2026-11-07

### Ex-FBI counterintelligence agent pleads guilty to stealing $2.47M in crypto using wallet credentials the FBI had seized in 35 investigations

- **Insider-risk lesson:** seized keys and seed phrases are live funds; store them in custody with dual control and alerting on any outbound transfer, not in case systems a broad squad can read.
- He faces up to 20 years.

Sources: [U.S. Attorney's Office EDVA press release: former FBI agent pleads guilty to cryptocurrency theft, Nov 5 (via Public mirror)](https://pubt.io/view/10A2B3F86EF573FCC797F60898E6A0EED8210C9A) · [The Record: FBI agent pleads guilty to stealing $2.4 million in crypto (Nov 6)](https://therecord.media/fbi-agent-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-from-nation-state-hackers)