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  • Netflix orders docuseries on crypto laundering couple

    • February 14, 2022
    • Posted by: MasterAdmin
    • Category: Cryptocurrency
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    Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, was arrested with her husband for allegedly laundering $4.5 billion worth of Bitcoin. | Image: Razzlekhan

    Netflix is gearing up to create a documentary series about the couple who allegedly laundered $4.5 billion worth of stolen Bitcoin (via Variety). This comes just days after Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested in connection with the crimes — and not long after many of us (regrettably) became aware of Morgan’s rapping alter-ego, Razzlekhan, aka the “Crocodile of Wall Street.”…

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  • Couple charged with money laundering tied to 2016 $4.5B crypto hack

    • February 9, 2022
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    • Category: Blockchain
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    The Justice Department on Tuesday announced the arrest of a couple in New York charged with conspiring to launder stolen Bitcoin linked to the 2016 hack of a cryptocurrency exchange from which $4.5 billion went missing.

    About $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency from the 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has so far been recovered in what Justice Department officials said Tuesday is the department’s largest such seizure to date.…

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  • Married NYC couple charged with laundering billions in stolen crypto

    • February 9, 2022
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    • Category: Investments
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    It’s one for the history books.

    The Department of Justice announced Tuesday morning the arrest of a married New York City couple allegedly caught trying to launder cryptocurrency stolen during the notorious 2016 hack of the Bitfinex exchange. The proceeds from that boosted crypto — specifically, 119,754 bitcoin — is presently valued at around $4.5 billion, and large chunks of it were on the move as recently as earlier this month.…

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