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Monday, August 03, 2026

Ex-FBI SA Patrick Steven Yaroch was arrested and charged with stealing approximately $1 million belonging to foreign adversaries, using sensitive intelligence he accessed through bureau systems. Stationed in Ashburn, VA, this former FBI counterintelligence agent allegedly executed 10 to 12 transactions beginning in late 2024 to move digital assets from foreign adversarial wallets into his own accounts. His scheme unraveled when he confessed to a colleague during a "crisis of conscience" on 28 July 2026.

Imagine throwing away a prestigious career and robust pension?

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An arrest or indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-03 03:48 PM | Reply

ACAB

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2026-08-03 04:01 PM | Reply

White collar ACAB.

The fish rots from the head down.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-03 04:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Crisis of conscience."

More like a moment, and he wasn't sure what to do with it.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-08-05 03:53 PM | Reply

#4

Before I went into the US Army last century, I interviewed for some federal agencies to become an investigator.

After a physical and medical, I made it to a final panel of three senior Special Agents of this organization which I won't name.

One of the SAs asked me the following:

"If you made an arrest and noticed your partner was secretly putting cash bundles in his pocket, what would you do?"

Now all three pairs of eyes lasered in on me like famished hawks.

"Ahem. After returning to the field office I would say: 'Ya know, I counted $135,000 in recovered cash. Now we barely have a hundred grand here. Strange. When I type up my portion of the report tomorrow, that is what it will say. Hey, good job today, Mike. See 'ya tomorrow.'"

The panel of senior SAs seemed to like my answer but I wasn't hired by that particular agency anyway.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-05 04:24 PM | Reply

This doesn't say much about our ability to detect and monitor such transactions.

Capital One was able to detect and shut down Trump's money laundering schemes.

Cash is trash in comparison to undetectable undeclared digital assets.

Makes one wonder how many of these transactions with "digital assets" are going undetected. But I probably don't really want to know how F-ed we really are.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-05 05:00 PM | Reply

#6

The three federal agencies remaining that can investigate (and therefore jeopardize the Trumpf Crime Family) are the USSS (which won't, thanks to Scott Pisspants), the US Postal Inspectors which has writ over 200 federal statutes including money laundering, and the US Marshal Service (USMS) which enforces all US laws.

None of these agencies will do anything to the TCF.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently asked the DODIG to investigate the TCF and their massive and shady DOD contracts, but we'll what the IG does.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-05 05:12 PM | Reply

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