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Married couple to plead guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency proceeds from Bitfinex hack

( July 21, 2023, 18:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Married couple Heather Morgan, who used the hip-hop alias "Razzlekhan," and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein have agreed to enter a guilty plea for laundering billions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 hack of the virtual currency exchange Bitfinex, according to court filings. Morgan and Lichtenstein were charged last year after allegedly deceiving cryptocurrency platforms and other financial institutions about the source of the funds.See document below....

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