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American Couple Accused of Laundering $4.5 Billion in Bitfinex Cryptocurrency Hack Enters Plea Agreement

An American couple from Manhattan, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, have reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Washington after being accused of laundering $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016.

The couple were initially arrested in February 2022 and are set to appear for a plea hearing on August 3. They were accused of conspiring to launder over 100,000 bitcoin that was stolen after a hacker attacked Bitfinex and initiated over 2,000 unauthorized transactions.

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