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The Agent Who Couldn't Resist the Wallet He Was Guarding There is a special kind of irony reserved for federal law enforcement, and Patrick Yaroch found it. A supervisory counterintelligence agent at FBI headquarters, the kind of person entrusted with the passcodes to seized digital wallets , allegedly decided that guarding someone else's fortune was less interesting than spending it. According to court documents , Yaroch used access obtained during an official investigation to make ten to twelve withdrawals from accounts tied to an overseas target, quietly transferring roughly $1 million in digital assets sometime between 2024 and 2025. What makes the case almost tender , in a deeply unsettling way, is how it ended. Yaroch wasn't caught by a blockchain analyst tracing wallet flows. He turned himself in , telling a Justice Department colleague the whole thing was, "eating him up inside." He filed a self-report form. He drove to headquarters to con...