Husband and wife, a rapper on TikTok, are accused in bitfinex hack

US married couple arrested for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5bn in bitcoin

I resisted the temptation to put scare quotes around "rapper" in the thread title. When I first read about this yesterday, I thought that this was a niche story, but then I heard her rapping on the TV news this morning. I guess that Billions with a B gets your attention.

Ninja'd by SuburbanTurkey in the bitcoin thread, but I thought this could use its own discussion here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuburbanTurkey (Post 13726133) Husband-wife team arrested trying to launder money stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack: Quote: The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that a married couple was arrested and charged for their alleged links to cryptocurrency stolen from a 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange. Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested in New York City and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States, DOJ officials said on Tuesday. The duo repeatedly misled financial institutions and virtual currency exchanges about their identities and about the origins of their Bitcoin, according to federal prosecutors, who said the money was cashed out and used to purchase gold, NFTs and other items, such as a $500 Walmart gift card. The stolen currency from the hack is currently valued at $4.5 billion, and law enforcement has seized over $3.6 billion in connection to the incident. https://thehill.com/regulation/court...ests-couple-in Really surprising anyone doing this would be bold enough to remain in the Unites States. That's kinda the whole point of internet scams, you're not supposed to be someplace that police can get you. ....... Heather Morgan also seems to have been a contributor at Forbes for a bit. Very strange.

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/cr7wF6i