(According to her website, the name “is like Genghis Khan, but with more pizzazz.”) It appears they both worked at EndPass - “a decentralized identity platform that lets people take back control of their digital identity and secure personal data” - and SalesFolk, which has supposedly “helped 870+ B2B sales teams” master email marketing, which is particularly odd given that Morgan has rapped about the term “B2B” standing for “bullshit-to-bullshit” under her artist name, Razzlekhan. Somewhere along the way, he and Morgan apparently got married. He has since served as an advisor for various startups and become an angel investor “interested in blockchain technology, automation, and big data.” Not long after he graduated, he co-founded a tech company called MixRank, which, according to Crunchbase, got off the ground with help from Y Combinator and a slew of early investors including billionaire Mark Cuban. According to LinkedIn, Lichtenstein, 34, studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin from 2006 to the 2010 while also working in the internet marketing industry on the side. Little, however, is said about Morgan and Lichtenstein’s backgrounds, aside from the latter being a Russian-U.S. Morgan and Lichtenstein are scheduled to be arraigned in Manhattan federal court Tuesday afternoon. Graves said the DOJ used “21st century investigative techniques” (whatever that means) to get to arrive at the arrests. “In a futile effort to maintain digital anonymity, the defendants laundered stolen funds through a labyrinth of cryptocurrency transactions.” In the same release, Jim Lee, chief of the IRS’ Criminal Investigation department called the matter a “methodical and calculated scheme,” and U.S. “Today’s arrests, and the department’s largest financial seizure ever, show that cryptocurrency is not a safe haven for criminals,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. 'Silence of the Lambs': The Complete Buffalo Bill Story Court documents reveal that the unnamed hacker had stolen 119,754 bitcoin - valued around $4.5 billion in February of 2022 - and moved chunks of it through a “complex” web of 2,000 unauthorized transactions that eventually led to “a digital wallet under Lichtenstein’s control.” According to a press release from the DOJ, the government seized $3.6 billion “directly linked” to a 2016 hack of a virtual currency exchange called Bitfinex.
On Tuesday, February 8th, feds arrested Morgan and her husband Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin. She has also been accused by the Department of Justice of participating in criminal activities.
Heather Morgan is a lot of things: A 31-year-old economist and self-proclaimed “serial entrepreneur” who’s worked in tech for a decade, a Forbes contributor from 2018 to 2021, a surrealist artist whose beyond-trippy pieces are often inspired by her synesthesia and sometimes include prosthetic eyeballs, and an outlandish rapper who spits about villainous capitalists.