In 2016, Heather Morgan, a.okay.a ‘Razzlekhan’ hacked Bitfinex and stole over 120,000 bitcoin. Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein subsequently pleaded responsible to cash laundering conspiracies associated to the theft, and to conspiring to defraud the USA.
Regardless of these two federal crimes and a loss that exceeded $4 billion by 2022, a decide has allowed Razzlekhan to stay out of jail. In reality, she attended this 12 months’s Bitcoin 2024 convention in Nashville.
Some attendees noticed her and took selfies, she handed out stickers along with her character emblem, the Crocodile of Wall Road, and instructed attendees she was looking for work as a crypto marketing consultant.
Jameson Lopp known as her “a known social engineer who is likely to be working for the State” and pinned a warning to future crypto occasion organizers in opposition to granting her entrance.
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This wasn’t her first crypto convention look since admitting to 2 federal crimes that may have (however didn’t) earned her a most jail sentence of 10 years. Sources who spoke to Protos who requested to not be recognized have seen her attending varied crypto occasions in New York Metropolis.
In 2022, a decide launched Razzlekhan from custody to deal with arrest on a $3 million bond. She posted her availability for work, claiming on August 23, 2022, that she was “not involved in any crypto project.”
Suspicions that she is a State asset stem from Lichtenstein’s admission to US authorities that he was the mastermind behind the Bitfinex hack. In response to his admission, he knowledgeable his spouse solely after the preliminary hack that their theft was profitable to the tune of over 120,000 bitcoin.
In any case, Razzlekhan is seemingly free to attend crypto conferences, together with this 12 months’s largest occasion in Nashville. She’s additionally seemingly sticking along with her notorious moniker, regardless of its ties to crime and an unsuccessful artistry profession.
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