The 'Crocodile of Wall Street' Heather Morgan and her husband have both pled guilty in a massive crypto laundering scheme. EamonJavers reports.
, 35, made that bombshell admission while pleading guilty to laundering the stolen bitcoin in Washington, D.C., federal court., who was in the audience, stepped up to enter her own guilty plea to two charges, money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
She was in the courtroom for her husband's plea hearing. Morgan has been free on $3 million bond since her arrest. Bitfinex in a statement said, "Following the August 2016 hack, Bitfinex engaged in unprecedented efforts to make its customers whole." Heather Rhiannon Morgan, who was in the audience, stepped up to enter her own guilty plea hearing in the case."Lichtenstein then took steps to cover his tracks by going back into Bitfinex's network and deleting access credentials and other log files that may have given him away to law enforcement" the DOJ said. "Following the hack, Lichtenstein enlisted the help of his wife, Morgan, in laundering the stolen funds.
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