A national justice has sentenced Heather Morgan to 18 months successful situation for her relation successful helping hubby Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein launder stolen Bitcoin, CoinDesk reports. Lichtenstein has admitted to hacking the cryptocurrency speech Bitfinex successful 2016 and stealing 120,000 Bitcoin, worthy $71 cardinal astatine the time (and astir $11 cardinal arsenic of this writing).
Before she was arrested, Morgan was a Forbes and Inc. blogger. When the Department of Justice announced her arrest, the net recovered retired she also made crypto-themed rap videos nether the sanction “Razzlekhan.” The full communicative is expected to beryllium immortalized successful a Netflix documentary bid and a movie called Dutch & Razzlekhan.
Morgan issued a connection connected X, saying she “will soon beryllium telling my story, sharing my thoughts, and telling you much astir the originative and different endeavors I’ve been moving on.”
Morgan pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to helping her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, fell the stolen crypto done “complex money-laundering techniques,” according to Bloomberg. Lichtenstein pleaded blameworthy for his part, too, and was ordered past week to service 5 years successful situation for the ordeal. Both were fixed lenient sentences for cooperating with authorities successful different investigations, the outlet writes.