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Bitfinex hacker, Heather Morgan plead guilty in $4.5B crypto laundering scheme

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nypost.com/2023/08/03/ilya-lichtenstein-heather-morgan-plead-guilty-to-crypto-laundering

A husband-and-wife duo on Thursday pleaded guilty to laundering money stolen in a 2016 hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex through an elaborate scheme involving burying gold coins and burning documents in a trash can in Kazakhstan.
In a hearing before US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, Moscow-born US citizen Ilya Lichtenstein admitted to hacking the…

This story from nypost.com was posted on 2023-08-04 by @seabree.

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