cybercrime

  • Heather Morgan, the rapper and wife in the NYC couple accused of laundering $4.5 billion of stolen bitcoin, can await trial at home

    • February 16, 2022
    • Posted by: MasterAdmin
    • Category: Cryptocurrency
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    Heather Morgan and her husband Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein in court in connection with $4.5 billion bitcoin laundering

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    The New York couple accused of a scheme to launder $4.5 billion in bitcoin will be split up after a judge granted bail to wife Heather Morgan but not husband Ilya Lichtenstein.
    The ruling came Monday as the couple appeared in a Washington, D.C.…

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  • DOJ Seizes $3.7 Billion in Cryptocurrency in Largest Financial Seizure Ever

    • February 14, 2022
    • Posted by: MasterAdmin
    • Category: Blockchain
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    The Justice Department has seized over $3.6 billion worth of stolen Bitcoin and arrested Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, a married couple accused in a criminal complaint of conspiring to launder 119,754 Bitcoin that had been stolen in 2016 from Hong Kong-based Bitfinex, one of the world’s largest virtual currency exchanges, six years ago by hackers, reports the New York Times.…

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