A senior FBI counterintelligence agent with top-secret clearance has admitted stealing nearly $1 million (£745,000) in cryptocurrency from wallets he was assigned to investigate, then asked ChatGPT how to leave the US and start over in Europe, court records show.
Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, of Ashburn, Virginia, worked at FBI headquarters in the bureau's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division after years on a Boston national-security squad tracking an unnamed adversary nation. He was arrested on 31 July and detained in Alexandria, Virginia. A criminal complaint against him was unsealed on Monday.
