New York Couple Set to Plead Guilty in $4.5 Billion Bitcoin-Laundering Case
A married New York couple is preparing to plead guilty to charges of conspiring to launder billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC), which was stolen during the notorious 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex.
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, who were charged in February last year after investigators used software to trace stolen digital currency to accounts the two owned, are preparing for a plea deal, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a court document.
The defendants were previously each charged with conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By the time of Morgan and Lichtenstein's arrest, the stolen cryptocurrency had multiplied to a staggering $4.5 billion.
