Razzlekhan or her real name Heather Morgan might ring a bell in your ears. Yes, she is a comedic rapper and a serial entrepreneur as well as a prolific writer as well. However, what you don’t know about Heather Morgan is that she has actually been charged with certain crimes such as conspiracy and money laundering for the 2016 Bitfinex hack. This news comes as a shock to the fans of Heather Morgan as well as the rest of the world.
Currently residing in New York, Heather Morgan, at the age of 31 claims to be different things in her LinkedIn Bio. She is a serial entrepreneur, irreverent comedic rapper, prolific writer, and investor in different B2B software companies that have a high potential for growth. However, the LinkedIn Bio that she shared with the world doesn’t say anything about this comedian’s associated with the capability to help in money laundering activities for cryptocurrency that is hacked.
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Yesterday morning, Several FBI Agents detained Morgan or Razzlekhan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein for supposedly creating the conspiracy to launder crypto connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack that witnessed 119,756 Bitcoin (BTC) drained from the crypto exchange, according to the best website crypto news.
The pair have strongly announced their innocence during a New York court entrance on Tuesday and were unconfined on multi-million-dollar bonds.
The 119,756 BTC whipped from Bitfinex was worth $72 million in August 2016, but is currently esteemed at more than $5.1 billion. Since the 2016 hack, individuals connected to the stolen coins have periodically moved small amounts of BTC in separate transactions, leaving the bulk of the funds untouched.
The DoJ reported that it had traced 25,000 BTC of these transferred funds to financial accounts controlled by Lichtenstein and Morgan. Special agents were then able to gain access to and seize more than 94,000 BTC — worth $3.6 billion at the time — from Morgan and Lichtenstein after a search warrant permitted them to view files that contained certain private keys to the wallet.
According to the DoJ complaint, the pair are charged with laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States, however, they are not charged with carrying out the hack itself. The first charge can be punished by up to 20 years in jail and the second by 5 years.
While Lichtenstein seems to be your run-of-the-mill tech businessperson, Morgan has a creative occurrence on social media where you can find TikToks showcasing art pieces inspired by her Synesthesia and her “WEIRD AF” music videos. And you certainly don’t want to miss the – they include gems like “I’m the grandmother you want to bang” Morgan, who is in her early thirties, raps this while sitting in a bathtub full of glitter during her song “Versace Bedouin.” The question remains is that, how does one go from being a rapper to the main focus of an FBI hacking search?
Going by her LinkedIn Bio, she began her career finding a job as an economist in Asia and the Middle East, including post-revolutionary Egypt following the Arab Spring. When she returned to California and eventually moved to Silicon Valley, she “became immersed in the tech startup scene. In 2009, she founded a B2B company called SalesFolk, which specializes in cold emails.
Meanwhile, she was also racking up some bylines on business and tech publications, like her Dec 2017 article “Should your company worry about getting blacklisted” and her seemingly well-informed June 2020 piece “Experts Share Tips To Protect Your Business From Cybercriminals,” both of which were published on Forbes. She also has a lengthy author profile for Inc Magazine.
