Here’s What Agents Say They Photographed in ‘Bitfinex Hack’ Couple’s Apartment
The mysterious case of the duo charged with attempting to launder a vast bitcoin (BTC) haul allegedly looted from the Bitfinex crypto exchange in a hack in 2016 just got a lot more bizarre – with the Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia issuing a 34-page legal document detailing why the couple should not be granted bail.
The case centers around a BTC 119,754 cache and a couple named Heather Morgan (31) and Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein (34). The latter is a tech investor. And the former is the CEO of a copywriting firm named SalesFolk and a writer for publications including Inc. and Forbes – as well as a musician who goes by the moniker Razzlekhan (here she is apparently professing her love to her husband in musical form).
In the Attorney’s document, lawyers explained how law enforcement officials traced funds to a crypto wallet under Lichtenstein’s name. Officers stated they had seized USD 3.6bn worth of tokens – making for the biggest financial seizure in American history.
They also stated they had found accounts linked to the funds that were controlled by both Morgan and her husband. And there were yet more unusual findings at the couple’s apartment on Wall Street, Manhattan.
The officers’ strange search began thusly, per the document:
“Agents permitted Morgan to retrieve the defendants’ cat, which was hiding under the bed. While Morgan was crouched next to the bed calling to the cat, she positioned herself next to the nightstand, which was still holding one of her phones. She then reached up and grabbed her cell phone from the nightstand and repeatedly hit the lock button. It appeared that Morgan was attempting to lock the phone in a way that would make it more difficult for law enforcement to search the phone’s
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