Following six months of radio silence, alleged Bitcoin launderer Heather “Razzlekahn” Morgan has declared that she no longer has any involvement in cryptocurrencies or nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
In her first tweet since February 6 this year, Morgan stated with an unequivocal belief that “any crypto or NFT project bearing my name or likeness is a scam that I do not endorse.”
Prior to her run-in with the law, Morgan was also known for rapping under the pseudonym Razzlekahn, her work as a Forbes contributor, and in the cybersecurity field providing advisory services.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein with conspiracy to commit multi-billion-dollar money laundering crimes in February 2022 in connection with the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack.
119,756 Bitcoin (BTC), approximately $72 million, was drained from the exchange via a security breach, with the assets being methodically laundered through several marketplaces, including AlphaBay and Hydra, in the years that followed.
The hack was one of the industry’s largest at the time, second only to Mt. Gox.
Razzlekahn and the Bitfinex hack
An FBI investigation seized the funds in February 2022, by which time they were worth in excess of $4.5 billion.
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