Heather Morgan – a New York-based comic rapper (who is called Razzlekhan as her rap name) – claims to do many things such as serial entrepreneurship, comedic rapping, prolific writing, as well as investing in B2B software firms with the potential of enormous growth, however, she has been accused of conspiring and money laundering by participating in Bitfinex hack of 2016. On the contrary, Heather’s LinkedIn bio does not mention provide anything confirming her alleged potential to assist in laundering the swindled crypto.
The Bitfinex hack of 2016
In the morning yesterday, the agents of the FBI arrested Morgan (a.k.a. Razzlekhan) as well as Ilya Lichtenstein (her husband) for the abovementioned accusation of the Bitfinex hack in which more than 119,756 BTC (Bitcoin) got taken off out of the respective exchange. The couple, while appearing on Tuesday at the New York court, strongly pronounced their innocence and were released over the bonds of multi-million dollars. The stolen funds of up to 119,756 BTC had a worth of nearly $72M in 2016’s August nonetheless the current value thereof is about $5.1 billion.
After the hack of 2016, the persons involved in stealing the coins have systematically shifted a small number of Bitcoin in several transactions but did not touch the funds in bulk. It was reported by DoJ that’s an amount of 25,000 BTC out of the respective funds was traced to have had been transferred to the accounts administered by Morgan and Lichtenstein.
Special personnel of the agency successfully had access to almost 94,000 BTC (with a worth of $3.6B) and they then confiscated the respective amount from Lichtenstein and Morgan following a search warrant which permitted them to look into the files in which the wallet’s private keys were contained.
From rapper to launder?
As per the complaint by DoJ, the couple had allegedly taken part in a conspiracy to defraud the authorities of the US as well as money laundering, nevertheless, the charge doesn’t mention that they had solely carried out the entire hacking event. The initial charge can be to punish them in jail for 20 years with a second taking account of five years.
Heather Morgan acquired a lot of fame by performing the raps such as Versace Bedouin and I’m the grandmother you want to bang. However, it is still unclear how she journeyed from being a rapper to becoming a prominent target of the FBI.
