Couple Pleads Guilty to the Multi-Billion Bitfinex Hack

A New York man and his wannabe rapper wife admitted to orchestrating a scheme to launder approximately 120,000 bitcoin he stole from Bitfinex in 2016.

Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan

By February 2022, Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 33, had attempted to cash out over 25,000 of the 119,754 bitcoin he had stolen from Bitfinex by moving the funds in thousands of transactions through multiple platforms and addresses.
According to court documents, investigators established that after …

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