### Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, a married couple nicknamed “Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde,” pleaded guilty to a money-laundering scheme amounting to $4.5 billion. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly accepted the plea last Thursday in a Washington DC federal court. 

Although the US Justice Department stated that their arrest in 2022 was “its largest financial seizure ever,” it was only after Thursday’s trial that Lichtenstein and Morgan were associated with the hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex.   The Justice Department said that Lichtenstein authorized over 2,000 transactions to transfer almost 120,000 Bitcoin to crypto wallets he controlled using “advanced hacking tools and techniques to access Bitfinex’s network.” His wife helped in laundering the funds.   Lichtenstein will remain in jail, while Morgan will stay under house arrest until sentencing.

According to a press release from the Justice Department, Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, which has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Morgan pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Each of these charges has a maximum sentence of five years in prison.



Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, a married couple nicknamed “Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde,” pleaded guilty to a money-laundering scheme amounting to $4.5 billion. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly accepted the plea last Thursday in a Washington DC federal court. 

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'Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde' plead guilty to money-laundering scheme linked to Bitfinex hack 