The self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and her husband have been granted bail set at $3million and $5million respectively after being arrested for allegedly laundering $4.5billion in Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack.
Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, darknet market site were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on federal charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
At an initial court appearance, a magistrate judge ruled Lichtenstein could be released into home detention on a $5 million bond co-signed by his parents; the bond amount for dark web markets web darknet market Morgan was set at $3 million but they were to remain in custody until the bail conditions were met.
Prosecutors had argued defendants, who live on Wall Street in lower Manhattan, should be denied bail, calling them flight risks who still potentially have access to vast sums of money.
Federal law enforcement officials said they recovered roughly $3.6 billon in cryptocurrency - the Justice Department's largest ever financial seizure - linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached nearly six years ago.
Lichtenstein is a citizen of both Russia and darknet markets onion the United States and the co-founder of an online marketing firm. Morgan, a rapper and former Forbes contributor, describes herself as 'an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory'.
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Bail for Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, was set at $5million and darknet sites $3million respectively after their arrest on Tuesday for allegedly laundering $4.
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