Heather Morgan, the rapper and wife in the couple accused of laundering $4.5 billion of stolen bitcoin, can await trial at home
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A federal judge ruled that a 34-year-old US-Russian dual citizen accused of trying to launder $4.5 billion in stolen bitcoin must await trial behind bars, but ordered his co-defendant and wife, Heather Morgan, released to home incarceration.
In a courtroom empty aside from lawyers and family members on Monday, the couple sat next to each other wearing green jumpsuits and respiratory masks in their first court appearance since the day of their arrest. As the judge handed down the ruling, Lichtenstein and Morgan passed a note to their lawyers, but otherwise the couple appeared to remain silent and calm for most of the 3-hour-plus court hearing.
In court documents filed last week, prosecutors described reams of evidence, including private keys to cryptocurrency wallets connected to the hack, as well as folders detailing fake personas, and shipping information for fake IDs ordered on the darkweb.
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