After a federal judge granted Bitfinex money laundering defendant Heather Morgan permission to “engage in legitimate employment,” Morgan on social media broke her silence. Morgan’s Twitter account is named “Heather ‘Razzlekhan’ Morgan” and authenticated on Twitter, and her latest tweet claims that she does not support any crypto or NFT projects with her name.
Heather Morgan claims: ‘I am not involved in any crypto projects’
On Tuesday, Heather Morgan, wife of Ilya Lichtenstein, one of the accused Bitfinex bitcoin landers, tweeted a message to her 24,900 Twitter followers on social media. Morgan and Lichtenstein were arrested last February after U.S. law enforcement officials said they seized 94,636 bitcoins from the pair. At the time of the Morgans’ arrest, bitcoin was worth roughly $4.5 billion, and there are now 94,636caches; a BTCis worth $2.03 billion.
Using her Twitter account, Morgan’s tweets are short and sweet and aim to give the public a message.” I am not involved in any encryption projects.” Morgantweeted. “Any crypto or NFT project with my name or likeness is a scam I do not endorse.” It was the only statement Morgan made on Twitter, and the last time she tweeted it was days before she was arrested in February. Morgan is known as “Razzlecan,” a New York-based street rapper, and a few days before her arrest, she shared one of her singles, “Bleeding Buckets,” via Spotify.
While Morgan is now a free woman and authorized to work, her husband remains in prison
Morgan’s Tuesday tweet followed her recent court date, when a judge decided she would be allowed to work while on pretrial release. The news report alsoindicated that court prosecutors have detailed in court filings that a “settlement” could be made to obviate a lengthy trial. Federal prosecutors further accused Morgan and Lichtenstein of attempting to set up “contingency measures for living in Ukraine and/or Russia prior to the COVID-19 epidemic.” Morgan was released on $3 million bail pending pretrial negotiations, while Lichtenstein remained 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, law enforcement officials claimed they found a significant amount of evidence. The couple’s apartment allegedly contained a burner phone, SIM cards, “two hollowed-out books” containing over $40,000 in cash, “a substantial amount of foreign currency,” and “over 70 one-ounce gold coins.”
Morgan herself had a very vocal online persona, utilizing the street rapper name “Razzlekhan” (39). She was also well known for writing columns for Forbes magazine on technology and financial fraud. Streaming media company Netflix has revealed that it will be distributing a documentary about the couple; Netflix has been distributing mystery documentaries related to the Quadrigax saga, and this weekreleased a documentary on John McAfee’s fugitive life documentaryon the fugitive life of John McAfee.
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