Ilya Lichtenstein, the hacker currently serving a five-year prison sentence for stealing billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin from crypto exchange Bitfinex, sent a message today from his jail cell: It was all his fault, and his wife shouldn’t be punished for his misdeeds.

Lichtenstein’s wife, Heather Morgan—perhaps better known by her rapping moniker “Razzlekhan”—was herself sentenced to 18 months in a U.S. prison for helping her husband launder the stolen funds. 

Last fall, Morgan admitted in federal court that she used various tactics to hide the haul of Bitcoin worth about $11.6 billion by today’s prices—including converting the crypto into gold coins and burying them.

In a prison video call posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) on Thursday, Lichtenstein claimed that his wife had no knowledge of the Bitfinex hack for years and was not involved in it in any way. 

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Author: Sander Lutz