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Following the federal judge’s decision to grant accused Bitfinex launderer Heather Morgan permission to “engage in lawful employment,” Morgan has broken her silence on social media. Morgan’s Twitter account called “Heather ‘Razzlekhan’ Morgan” has been verified on Twitter and her latest tweet insists that she does not support any crypto or NFT project bearing her name.
On Tuesday, one of the accused Bitfinex bitfinex launderers, Heather Morgan, the wife of Ilya Lichtenstein, tweeted a message to her 24,900 Twitter followers on social media. Morgan and Lichtenstein were arrested last February after US police announced they had confiscated 94,636 bitcoins from the duo. At the time of the arrest of Morgan and her husband, bitcoin was worth approximately $4.5 billion, and today the cache of 94,636 BTC is worth $2.03 billion.
Using her Twitter account, Morgan’s tweet is short and sweet and aims to give her audience a message. “I’m not involved in any crypto project,” Morgan tweeted. “Any crypto or NFT project that bears my name or image is a scam that I do not support.” That was the only statement Morgan made on Twitter, and the last time she tweeted was days before her arrest in February. Morgan was known as “Razzlekhan,” a New York-based street rapper, and a few days before her arrest, she shared one of her singles via Spotify called “Bleeding Buckets.”
Morgan’s tweet on Tuesday follows her recent court date when the judge ruled that she would be allowed to work amid her pretrial release. Reports also indicated that prosecutors specified in one trial that a “decision” could take place to skip a lengthy trial. Federal prosecutors further accused Morgan and Lichtenstein of attempting to set up “a contingency plan for a life in Ukraine and/or Russia prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.” While Morgan is free on a $3 million bond pending pretrial negotiations, Lichtenstein remains in jail and was not granted bail.
The couple’s story has received a lot of media attention since their arrest, and when their apartment was raided, police authorities claim they found a significant amount of evidence. The duo’s apartment reportedly had burner phones, SIM cards, “two hollowed-out books” containing more than $40,000 in cash, a “significant amount of foreign currency” and “over 70 one-ounce gold coins.”
Morgan herself had a very vocal online persona when she took advantage of the street rapper name Razzlekhan. She was also known for writing columns for Forbes magazine about technology and financial fraud. Streaming media company Netflix revealed it was to release a docu-series about the couple. Netflix has been streaming mystery documentaries involving the Quadrigacx saga, and this week it’s releasing a docu-series covering the life of John McAfee on the run.
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