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US hacker sentenced over Bitcoin heist worth billions


Ilya Lichtenstein laundered the stolen cryptocurrency with his wife Heather Morgan aka Razzlekhan.

The $3.6bn worth of assets recovered in the case was the biggest financial seizure in the DOJ's history, deputy attorney General Lisa Monaco said at the time. Even as the couple attempted to cover up the hack, she published dozens of expletive-filled music videos and rap songs filmed in locations around New York. In articles published in Forbes magazine, Morgan also claimed to be a successful technology businesswoman, calling herself an "economist, serial entrepreneur, software investor and rapper".

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