A former FBI counterintelligence agent has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after admitting that he stole nearly $2.5 million in cryptocurrency by abusing access to sensitive FBI systems. Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, used his position to conduct unauthorized transfers connected to active investigations, authorities said in a Thursday announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office news release, Yaroch carried out roughly 100 fraudulent transfers tied to 35 FBI investigations. The proceeds amounted to $2,474,380.66, prosecutors said, with the funds later exchanged and laundered through financial transactions intended to obscure their origin and…