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(Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"20.811899313501\"><body readability=\"42.209562563581\"><\/p>\n<p>The New York City couple arrested in February 2022 and accused of laundering roughly $3.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency pleaded guilty to money laundering Thursday, with one of them also apparently admitting to hacking the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/bitfinex-hacker-and-wife-plead-guilty-money-laundering-conspiracy-involving-billions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the U.S. Department of Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials recovered roughly $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency at the time of the arrests \u2014 the DOJ\u2019s largest recovery to date \u2014 and have seized another approximately $475 million tied to the hack. <\/p>\n<p>According to Thursday\u2019s statement, Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, \u201cused a number of advanced hacking tools and techniques to gain access to gain access to <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/tag\/bitfinex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bitfinex<\/a>\u2018s network.\u201d After the hack, he enlisted the help of his wife, Heather Morgan, 33, in laundering stolen funds.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein authorized more than 2,000 transactions to move 119,754 stolen bitcoin to a cryptocurrency under his control, and then tried to delete access credentials and other log files in Bitfinex\u2019s system in an attempt to conceal his actions, the DOJ said. After the hack, he sought his wife\u2019s help in laundering the stolen money using \u201cnumerous sophisticated laundering techniques\u201d such as deploying fictitious identities, depositing funds into multiple darknet market accounts and cryptocurrency exchanges and subsequently withdrawing them and using bitcoin mixers, which attempt to make tracking the flow of cryptocurrency more difficult.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and is facing up to 20 years in prison. Morgan pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan gained notoriety for rapping under the name \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCU6zQo1qSp2EeJ0uiaSPHYA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Razzlekhan<\/a>\u201d and has been held under house arrest since the arrest and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/18\/crypto-rapper-razzlekhan-lands-nyc-tech-job-while-under-house-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently took a job<\/a> at an unnamed New York City tech company.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"1.2385321100917\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by AJ Vicens<\/h4>\n<p> AJ covers nation-state threats and cybercrime. 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