Razzlekhan Couple Reach Plea Deal With Government Over Laundered Bitcoin From Bitfinex Hack

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Ilia Liechtenstein and Heather Morgan [Music] the crypto couple who were arrested for laundering what was at the time 4.5 billion dollars in stolen Bitcoin I'm a [ __ ] bad [ __ ] have finally reached plea agreements with Federal prosecutors the day of their arrest in February 2022 the unfiltered social media presence of Morgan in particular who was an amateur rapper going by the name razzlecon here prompted ridicule disbelief and mockery [ __ ] you stuck like a vacuum cleaner Lichtenstein and Morgan are slated to make an appearance for arraignments and hearings on August 3rd with the prosecuting authorities today the court docket was just updated to

show that the couple are facing a new charging document and a plea hearing is now set on the calendar that indicates the possibility that they could now plead guilty in the case the couple will plead guilty to three charges two counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States sentencing will take place 60 to 90 days after the hearing according to his horse familiar with the matter both defendants have cooperated with authorities the couple have given the government new wallet addresses holding more stolen funds and other information that has allowed the government to recover additional assets such Behavior could reduce time and custody which otherwise would likely be substantial as Federal sentencing guidelines take into account the amount of money involved Netflix

Forbes Hulu and even Unchained all announced projects on the couple Morgan and Liechtenstein were arrested in New York accused of laundering billions of dollars in Bitcoin from the 2016 fitfinex hack we're back with a wild story involving allegations of multi-billion dollar theft cryptocurrency in a years-long FBI search within the past couple of minutes the arrest of two individuals in Manhattan this morning and the seizure of a massive 3.6 billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency 119 754 Bitcoins total had been stolen at the time of the theft that was worth around 72 million dollars but the value has since skyrocketed to what is now over 3 billion dollars the

first movements of funds were in January 2017. and some of that went to to a dognut Marketplace called alphabet um so Alpha Bay at its at its peak was the largest darknet Marketplace in existence selling everything from narcotics to hacking tools to fake IDs after the arrest the Department of Justice confirmed that more than 94 000 Bitcoins had been recovered this is the largest seizure of cryptocurrency ever by U.S law enforcement you don't even know me you start a company at 23 got no clue what I'm about could gut you like a trout don't know what my business does

get lost you ain't my cause make me come or make me cash you can't even make me laugh the so-called Bonnie and Clyde of crypto had possession of the private Keys required to access the wallet containing those stolen funds bad [ __ ] bad [ __ ] [ __ ] bad [ __ ] all roads LED in one way or another back to Liechtenstein Morgan or one of their businesses the government was even able to track the stolen funds down to the purchase of a 500 Walmart gift card which was used to buy items under Morgan's name with her email address and delivered to her in lichtenstein's apartment investigators also pursued the laundered Bitcoins to purchases of uber rides hotels.com purchases a PlayStation

and 71 ounce gold coins eventually law enforcement obtained a copy of the contents of one of liechtenstein's cloud storage accounts it contained a file that logged all the addresses and private keys for the wallet that had directly received the stolen Bitcoin from bitfinex the cloud storage account also had the login information and the status of the accounts through which the Bitcoins had attempted to be laundered a folder named personas which held documents and biographical information for various individuals and a file titled passport ideas notated with different darknet vendors selling passports or other forms of identification also Morgan and Liechtenstein traveled to Ukraine in August 2019. during which time

Lichtenstein created and or modern find the personas folder along with the fake ID information as well as a document titled vendors that listed darknet sellers investigators also found under their bed a bag holding multiple cell phones SIM cards and other electronics as well as a bag specifically labeled burner phones in lichtenstein's office they discovered two books that had been hollowed out to create compartments and They seized forty thousand dollars in cash as well as a large amount of foreign currency in the 16 months since Liechtenstein has stayed in jail in Washington DC while Morgan has been released on the three million dollar bond to her home in New York although she moved out of their Wall Street

apartment this past January she obtained a new job quote in the role of growth marketing and Business Development specialist at an unknown company clearly this story has not come to an end stay tuned to Unchained for more on Morgan and Liechtenstein as the rest of the case unfolds thank you