Heather Morgan is an American rapper and Forbes contributor who was arrested earlier today for attempting to launder more than 25,000 Bitcoins that were stolen as part of the 2016 hack of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.
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The Department of Justice arrested Heather Morgan, 31, and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and are scheduled to make their initial appearances in federal court today at 3:00 p.m. in Manhattan. If convicted, they face up to a maximum of 25 years in prison.
Morgan — who performed under the alias Razzlekhan — seemingly spent all of the time she was not allegedly shifting around $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency shooting rap videos.
On her YouTube page, can find Morgan’s rap videos sprinkled in between unboxing clips and a review of 13 different kinds of aluminum-free deodorant.
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Morgan, the self-proclaimed “Crocodile of Wall Street,” states that she experiences synesthesia, which results in “art” that “often resembles something between an acid trip and a delightful nightmare.”
“Always be a GOAT, not a god damn sheep,” she raps at the start of her song. “Spirit of a revolutionary, power of a dictator/love to be contrary, but I’m fly like a gator,” she says later.
According to court documents, Lichtenstein and Morgan allegedly conspired to launder the proceeds of 119,754 bitcoin that were stolen from Bitfinex’s platform after a hacker breached Bitfinex’s systems and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions.
Over the last five years, approximately 25,000 of that stolen bitcoin were transferred out of Lichtenstein’s wallet via a complicated money laundering process that ended with some of the stolen funds being deposited into financial accounts controlled by Lichtenstein and Morgan.
The DOJ will let people who lost Bitcoin in the hack request that the government returns it to them.
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