WASHINGTON — An FBI supervisor detailed to the U.S. intelligence community is facing two federal charges, accused of transferring nearly a million dollars from cryptocurrency accounts tied to an adversarial nation into his personal cryptocurrency wallet.
Patrick Yaroch has been charged with interstate transportation of stolen goods and receipt of stolen goods, after he told a Justice Department employee he became “frustrated,” the FBI “could not or would not act against adversarial cryptocurrency accounts,” according to court documents. Yaroch reportedly said he was upset he couldn’t do more to disrupt cryptocurrency use by an adversarial nation during an investigation.
That adversarial nation was Russia, two sources familiar…







