Crocodile of Wall Street
https://www.forbes.com/sites/heathermorgan/2019/04/30/got-burnout-tech-ceo-try-rapping/?sh=de35f9312310
Got Burnout? This Tech CEO Thinks You Should Try Rapping
https://web.archive.org/web/20220530154520/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/nyregion/bitcoin-bitfinex-hack-heather-morgan-ilya-lichtenstein.html
Inside the Bitcoin Laundering Case That Confounded the Internet
The arrests of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan left the world of cryptocurrency incredulous: Could this goofy young couple have been Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde?
When anonymous hackers infiltrated the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016, it shook the nascent world of digital currency and prompted speculation about who might have stolen what was then $71 million in Bitcoin.
But unlike traditional financial transactions, Bitcoin trades are publicly visible — moving the coins risked revealing who was behind the heist. And so for six years, as the value of Bitcoin soared, the loot sat in plain sight online as tiny fractions of the giant sum occasionally disappeared in a blizzard of complex transactions.
It was as if a robber’s getaway car was permanently parked outside the bank, locked tight, money still inside.
And then, this month, the car sped off.
In the strange and sometimes shadowy world of cryptocurrency, it was as if the earth shook. In the years since the Bitfinex hacking, crypto had exploded into the mainstream, and the theft had become notorious: a bounty worth over $4 billion. At last, it seemed, the hackers had emerged from hiding.
But it was not the hackers who had moved the stolen Bitcoin — it was the government, which had seized it as part of an investigation into two New York City entrepreneurs: one a little-known Russian émigré and tech investor; the other, his wife, an American businesswoman and would-be social media influencer with an alter ego as a satirical rapper named Razzlekhan.
Charged with conspiring to launder billions of dollars in Bitcoin, the couple, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and Heather Morgan, 31, were accused of siphoning off chunks of the purloined currency and trying to hide it in a complex network of digital wallets and internet personas. If convicted of that and a second conspiracy count, they could face up to 25 years in prison.
The arrests shocked some acquaintances of the couple, whose goofy online lives appeared at odds with prosecutors’ description of them as sophisticated criminals with stacks of foreign currency, multiple fake identities and dozens of encrypted devices stashed in their Manhattan apartment. As they awaited a Monday court hearing in Washington on whether they should be freed on bail, Mr. Lichtenstein and Ms. Morgan remained the subject of a confounding question: Could they really be at the center of one of cryptocurrency’s enduring mysteries?
The charges were a watershed in the evolving regulation of digital currency and, to some, a step forward in the government’s ability to trace its illegal laundering.
“The crypto space has always been seen as like a safe haven for criminals,” said Christopher Tarbell, a former F.B.I. special agent who helped lead the investigation into the Silk Road online marketplace for illegal drugs and other illicit goods.
“We’re now seeing that law enforcement has the knowledge, tools and skills to provide some accountability in what was the new wild, wild west of cybercrime,” Mr. Tarbell said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
>who is she related to?
>Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan
https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/inside-the-wild-life-of-bitcoin-bandits-heather-morgan-and-ilya-lichtenstein/
https://nypost.com/2022/03/22/bitcoin-couple-ilya-lichtenstein-heather-morgan-talk-plea-deal/
>Florida Rep. Greg Steube was hospitalized on Wednesday after falling from a roof.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-17/wall-street-rapper-charged-in-crypto-heist-lands-new-tech-job
Wall Street Rapper Charged in Crypto Heist Gets New Tech Job
Judge modifies Heather Morgan’s house arrest to work in office
Morgan, husband accused of laundering $4.5 billion in Bitcoin
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-reaches-debt-limit-setting-early-june-congress-deadline-rcna66357
U.S. reaches debt limit, setting 'early June' deadline as Capitol Hill fight intensifies
The Treasury Department says it can continue to pay the bills using "extraordinary measures" for several more months before Congress must act to avert default.
The U.S. government is hitting its statutory debt limit on Thursday, requiring the Treasury Department to begin resorting to "extraordinary measures" to pay the bills.
In a recent letter to congressional leaders, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said those special financial tools can extend until "early June" and that Congress will need to act to prevent default.
"Yet the use of extraordinary measures enables the government to meet its obligations for only a limited amount of time. It is therefore critical that Congress act in a timely manner to increase or suspend the debt limit," Yellen wrote.
"Failure to meet the government's obligations would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability," she said. "Indeed, in the past, even threats that the U.S. government might fail to meet its obligations have caused real harms, including the only credit rating downgrade in the history of our nation in 2011."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen
>Crypto giant Genesis is 'days away' from bankruptcy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/heathermorgan/
Heather R. Morgan was a contributor between 2017 and 2021. Her most recent bio: She “is an international economist, serial entrepreneur, and investor in B2B software companies. She is an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory. Morgan is the co-founder and CEO of Endpass, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate identity verification while proactively detecting fraud. When she's not reverse-engineering black markets to think of better ways to combat fraud and cybercrime, she enjoys rapping and designing streetwear fashion.”
What islands are/were those?