Heather ‘Razzlekhan’ Morgan Breaks Twitter Silence, Denying Links to Crypto, NFT Space

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Following six months of radio silence, alleged Bitcoin launderer Heather “Razzlekahn” Morgan has declared that she not has any involvement in cryptocurrencies or nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

In her first tweet since February 6 this yr, Morgan said with an unequivocal perception that “any crypto or NFT mission bearing my identify or likeness is a rip-off that I don’t endorse.” 

I’m not concerned in any crypto mission. Any crypto or NFT mission bearing my identify or likeness is a rip-off that I don’t endorse.

— Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan (@HeatherReyhan) August 23, 2022

Previous to her run-in with the regulation, Morgan was additionally identified for rapping beneath the pseudonym Razzlekahn, her work as a Forbes contributor, and within the cybersecurity area offering advisory providers.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein with conspiracy to commit multi-billion-dollar cash laundering crimes in February 2022 in reference to the notorious 2016 Bitfinex hack. 

119,756 Bitcoin (BTC), roughly $72 million, was drained from the trade by way of a safety breach, with the belongings being methodically laundered by way of a number of marketplaces, together with AlphaBay and Hydra, within the years that adopted.

The hack was one of many business’s largest on the time, second solely to Mt. Gox.

Razzlekahn and the Bitfinex hack

An FBI investigation seized the funds in February 2022, by which era they have been value in extra of $4.5 billion. 

The FBI alleged that Morgan and Lichtenstein “employed quite a few subtle laundering methods” to evade monetary detection.

These embrace the registration of faux identities for on-line accounts, utilizing pc packages to bulk-automate transactions, “breaking apart the fund move” by spreading deposits throughout a number of darkish internet exchanges, and “chain-hopping” by transferring Bitcoin into different digital belongings, amongst different methods.

In accordance with a submitting from the Division of Justice on February 8, cash laundering fees to this extent maintain a “most sentence of 20 years in jail,” whereas “conspiracy to defraud the USA […] carries a most sentence of 5 years in jail.”

Lichtenstein and Morgan have been arrested and charged however subsequently launched on bail by a federal decide after posting the $8 million charge.

The couple’s case is ongoing, and their destiny can be decided by a federal district courtroom decide at a yet-to-be-determined trial date.