Heather Morgan, known as Razzlekhan, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for laundering stolen Bitcoin linked to the Bitfinex hack of 2016. A federal judge in Washington, DC, imposed the sentence in a hearing on November 18, 2024, after Morgan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and defraud the United States in August 2023. Morgan and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, were found to have laundered millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex prior to their arrests in 2022. Initially, the couple was only suspected of laundering the stolen funds; however, Lichtenstein later admitted in court to being involved in the hack itself, where 119,754 BTC was stolen, worth approximately $10.8 billion at current prices. The 18-month prison term was significantly less than the maximum of 20 years permitted under sentencing guidelines due to Lichtenstein's cooperation in other investigations and his lack of prior criminal history.

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