{"id":2936,"date":"2024-11-19T08:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2024-11-19T08:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:16:36","slug":"bitfinex-bitcoin-laundering-case-lands-crocodile-of-wall-street-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=2936","title":{"rendered":"Bitfinex Bitcoin Laundering Case Lands &#8216;Crocodile Of Wall Street&#8217; In Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rapper <strong>Heather Morgan<\/strong>, known as the \u2018Crocodile of Wall Street\u2019, is set to serve 18 months in prison for conspiring with her hacker husband to launder billions of dollars of stolen <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Morgan, 34, was sentenced on Monday in a federal court in Washington for her role in the sensational cyberattack on cryptocurrency exchange\u00a0<strong>Bitfinex <\/strong>in 2016, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-11-18\/hacker-s-wife-razzlekhan-gets-18-months-for-money-laundering\">report <\/a>by Bloomberg. Her spouse and hack mastermind, <strong>Ilya Lichtenstein<\/strong>, has already been awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/42011697\/bitcoin-hacker-sentenced-to-5-years-for-laundering-billions-in-crypto-theft\">five-year sentence<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/24\/11\/42053981\/trump-sec-pick-speculation-sends-this-altcoin-soaring-past-bitcoin-and-ethereum-in-daily-gains\">Trump SEC Pick Speculation Sends This Altcoin Soaring Past Bitcoin &#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/42055570\/bitfinex-bitcoin-laundering-case-lands-crocodile-of-wall-street-in-jail\" alt=\"Bitfinex\" bitcoin laundering case lands of wall street in jail>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Heather Morgan, known as the \u2018Crocodile of Wall Street\u2019, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}