Bitfinex Bitcoin Laundering Case Lands ‘Crocodile Of Wall Street’ In Jail

Rapper Heather Morgan, known as the ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, is set to serve 18 months in prison for conspiring with her hacker husband to launder billions of dollars of stolen Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).

What Happened: Morgan, 34, was sentenced on Monday in a federal court in Washington for her role in the sensational cyberattack on cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016, according to a report by Bloomberg. Her spouse and hack mastermind, Ilya Lichtenstein, has already been awarded a five-year sentence.

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