U.S. FBI intelligence agent arrested in connection with theft of $1 million in crypto
A high-level FBI agent, Patrick Steven Yarmoch, has been arrested for allegedly stealing $1 million in cryptocurrency from accounts he was investigating. The agent reportedly used AI tools to plan his escape to Portugal before being caught by his own agency.
The high-level special agent, identified as Patrick Steven Yarmoch, allegedly turned himself in to agency colleagues, reporting that he dug crypto keys from FBI systems to make as many as a dozen transfers to himself from accounts tied to foreign individuals he'd investigated, according to an August 1 account filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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