A couple known as the ‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ have pleaded guilty to a multi-billion-dollar money-laundering scheme on Thursday. Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, a married couple from New York, were arrested last February. One of Morgan’s many aliases was “Razzlekhan” while Lichtenstein was known as “Dutch.”The couple were dubbed “Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde” by financial newsletter Morning Brew. Lichtenstein admitted to hacking the exchange and enlisting his wife Morgan to help conceal some 119,754 stolen bitcoin. “It was at my direction,” Lichtenstein told the judge.

Source: Forbes August 04, 2023 13:18 UTC