‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ Gets 18 Months in Crypto Case
- Heather Morgan helped hide Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex hack
- Husband, who hacked exchange, got five years in prison
According to prosecutors, Morgan and Lichtenstein engaged in complex money-laundering techniques.
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The woman who dubbed herself the “Crocodile of Wall Street” and “Razzlekhan” in rap videos was ordered to serve 18 months behind bars for helping her hacker husband launder cryptocurrency he stole from the Bitfinex exchange.
Heather Morgan, 34, was sentenced Monday in Washington federal court. Last week, her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, got five years in prison for his role in the scheme, which stemmed from his 2016 hack of the exchange and the theft of Bitcoin currently worth billions of dollars. Both pleaded guilty last year.