The crypto globe is humming over the information that the Justice Department has actually confiscated billions of bucks well worth of Bitcoin swiped in the 2016 Bitfinex hack—and concerning the 31-year-old New York lady arrested in the situation.
According to the FBI, Heather Morgan and her other half Ilya Lichtenstein conspired to wash funds from the hack, and invested the continues on gold, NFTs, and various other things.
While you would certainly anticipate crypto offenders to maintain a reduced account, specifically those that stole billions in Bitcoin, that isn’t the situation with this supposed perpetrator. Morgan’s goals to be a rap artist, author, and influencer has actually left a prolonged route of photos and video clips on social networks, consisting of these from TikTok:
Morgan, whose verses in the video clip over consist of “yes that was cheesy/at least I’m not sleazy,” likewise has actually a site committed to her rap artist alter-ego called “Razzlekhan.” Her site clarifies that “Just like her fearless entrepreneurial spirit and hacker mindset, Razz shamelessly explores new frontiers of art.”
Morgan’s LinkedIn account, at the same time, explains her as a “Serial Entrepreneur, SaaS Investors and Surrealist.” It notes she got a BACHELOR’S DEGREE in Economics from UC Davis, and details her abilities as “Inside Sales” and “Email Marketing.”
Morgan has actually likewise attempted her hand as a reporter, releasing posts for Inc and as a contributor at Forbes where she has actually covered whatever from spirit food to influencer techniques to—paradoxically—just how to “Protect Your Business from Cybercriminals.”
Her Instagram account, at the same time, is a dynamic collection of pictures flaunting her life in New York City, consisting of one with her supposed companion-in-criminal activity, Lichtenstein.
Morgan’s dynamic social life likewise consisted of providing talks at New York City beauty parlor evenings, consisting of one labelled “How to Social Engineer Your Way Into Anything” (consisting of, probably, the cryptocurrency globe).
The Justice Department must, naturally, still verify its claims in court that Morgan washed the $4.5 billion in Bitcoin swiped from Bitfinex in 2016.
If Morgan is without a doubt guilty as billed, her way of life is in for a quantum leap. According to the Justice Department, she and Lichtenstein encounter an optimal sentence of twenty years in government jail for the cash laundering cost, plus 5 even more for conspiring to rip off the U.S. federal government.
