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    Alleged Rapper Razzlekhan ‘The Crocodile of Wall Street’ and Her Husband Arrested for the Theft of Over $3 Billion in Bitcoin

    Solen crypto seized linked directly to 2016 Bitfinex hack

    Wow Heather Morgan, Forbes contributor and rapper, and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan. The couple had in their possession roughly $3.6 billion in Bitcoin, which was hacked from Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex in 2016. The Justice Department reports that this seizure of crypto is its largest financial seizure to date. The charges going against the couple are conspiracy to launder money, and conspiracy to defraud the US. It is still unclear if they were the ones who orchestrated the hack. The couple allegedly laundered the money through a series of crypto wallets and transactions, and up until recently did a good job of it, they…