Did This Couple Launder Billions of Dollars in Bitcoin?

In the crypto world, lack of experience isn’t always a barrier to fortune or notoriety. Take the 2016 Bitfinex hack, which led to charges against a rapper named Razzlekhan and her startup-guy husband.
One of the most enduring mysteries in the world of cryptocurrencies was resolved Thursday when Ilya Lichtenstein acknowledged that he was the hacker who executed the 2016 attack on the Bitfinex exchange.
Lichtenstein, along with his social-media rapper wife, who dubbed herself the “Crocodile of Wall Street,” pleaded guilty to a money-laundering conspiracy tied to the theft of billions of dollars of Bitcoin from the exchange. Who executed the exploit has been the biggest guessing games in crypto after the identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Lichtenstein, 35, admitted during a hearing on Thursday before US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that he orchestrated the hack, which took 119,756 Bitcoin from Bitfinex. He faces as long as 20 years in prison.
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[@business]

Do you think Razzlekhan and Dutch pulled off the biggest crypto heist in history?

[@firestarter1888]

Is there any reason you failed to expose SBF in July when your newsroom was presented with tangible evidence of his fraudulent behaviour.

[@leslie1526]

Go for it 😂 Let us know how much you los 😂 Some will never learn Dickheadism syndrome

[@maxmeier532]

They were ahead of their time. The role models of SBF and his whood nymph. In a world where meme dorks are worshipped, from Liver King to Elon Musk, even her "rap" career made sense.

[@MayorSom]

SBF: what?

[@ropro9817]

Lol, throw all these scammers into jail and set an example.

[@franksonm]

The "music" is a worse crime than the theft.

[@richardthomas598]

That is what Trevor Noah said.

[@EffySalcedo]

Its durty 🤣

[@esterhudson5104]

🤣

[@imaginethat2879]

Honestly. She needed a friend that would tell her to shut up once in a while

[@emanggitulah4319]

Just for the music she deserves prison time IMO

[@seanedghill5025]

What she is farting out does not fit into any music category known to mankind.

[@BigtimeBigA]

Roast me but I think Crocodile of Wallstreet slaps! 😛

[@tjakkobosma5872]

@@BigtimeBigA Look I get wolf of Wallstreet because wolves hunt on land but crocodiles are always in the water so crocodile of Wallstreet does not make sense

[@BigtimeBigA]

@@tjakkobosma5872 I’m not saying it makes sense, I was just saying after everyone played the song to make fun it grew on me and I actually like it, lol. But just that song, everything else is a crime against music.

[@hanshuber1875]

I'm Thousands of kilometers away from you, but you killed me with that comment.

[@michellepernula872]

Malignant narcissism

[@mariobenic]

10 years of one cold email per day is definitely NOT more than 10k emails 😂

[@ktktktktktktkt]

She said "at least". One email per day for 10 years is 3,650 so it's not that far off.

[@james.telfer]

@@ktktktktktktkt err, that's just over a third. Pretty sure you wouldn't like to buy something and find you only got 1/3 of the product!

[@ktktktktktktkt]

@@james.telfer as I said before, she said "at least" so the "1" means almost nothing in the context. The dataset of the number of emails she sent each day during the time period could have a minimum of 1 but as long as the average is at least about 3, her statement that she's sent at least 10k emails is not false.

[@ChaceBonanno]

I love the part where they covered how they laundered money

[@tz7813]

From the FTX collapse, we now know that these people have unique ‘personalities’, because their brains are burnt out on speed.

[@ricardoams]

I still don't believe this woman is not a SNL 'comedian' doing that 'great' performances.

[@Robert-bn1gq]

Las Kardashian..RAP AND.laundry..BITCOIN.🥊

[@idicula1979]

We all live in an Andy Warholesqe world where we are the actors and our 15 minutes is all hours of the day, life is the canvas we pour our art in to, and for some people that is just being absurd to the highest degree.

[@pd2152]

She's unmatchable

[@MithunOnTheNet]

Netflix is already working on a documentary about this, right?

[@hello2jello4mellow34]

Crypto is a lunatics castle in the sky.

[@Dantee.15]

And that’s what they said about the internet early on. Here we all are

[@cryptokirbydeletesnegative5345]

Nice heart faced smiley...

[@ayoolowoleru8251]

We All agree she definitely can’t rap to save her own life

[@jaylenbrownfan2112]

Still not as cool as a guy jumping out of a plane with a suitcase full of money. RIP D.B Cooper.

[@pawelkaras7231]

D.B. Cooper the mystery man is boss.

[@MichaelDeMersLA]

Dey never caught DB Cooper

[@musilmark861]

The perfect crime

[@KS-PNW]

​@@musilmark861 not really. He probably died after jumping. Over the years a fair of the cash has been found in/around the Columbia River area.

[@jupiterjones3789]

I can't get enough of this story!

[@samthomas1457]

I've watched one minute of this video and that's enough for me, see ya.

[@xenostim]

apparently there's going to be a hulu special AND a netflix special. so don't worry there's plenty more cringe to come

[@SourGrey]

@@xenostim yes!

[@sarasmith9333]

pure idiocy and sickness

[@TimeraB]

They could of been successful with her education and connections, and his growing business. Seems like a case of being too greedy and thinking they could get away with it.

[@VagoniusThicket]

Kreplach madness !

[@user-cm1ct9lc3q]

Imagine being scammed by those individuals

[@VagoniusThicket]

The names give you a common denominator. Hmmm ?

[@VagoniusThicket]

Oy veh !

[@Negotea]

That fish is drowning in the ocean lol.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Yes

[@richardthomas598]

This video's commentary is proof that the only people who are willing to say nice things about Razzle Khan are other Young Millennials. Even the older end of the Millennial cohort are like "ugh."

[@KayDejaVu]

Few of these comments speak to the heist itself. Just shows you how the US brain is.

[@WesPollardAutoSport]

This will make a great movie 🍿🎥

[@ggurks]

No, it won't

[@SuperBizzle10]

the real crime here is the rapping

[@Jut_tc]

2023 will be full of huge drama with SBF and FTX. Get your popcorn ready.

[@cryptoal5240]

Yeah go watch her rap hack video

[@linkingwithnaz1295]

2:20 my boy George

[@whatever_12]

I wish there were more info on the restitution of fund that will go on.. How will the FBI deal with giving back the bitcoin to the original owners etc..

[@james.telfer]

I see she's going for the insanity plea... 🤪

[@VagoniusThicket]

Matzo ball poisoning.

[@SamRomain]

Great outreach tips though

[@TomTom-cm2oq]

11:40 Does she say alter “eagle?”

[@scuffedcomedy4819]

So many exchanges get "hacked" by their own devs/CEOs

[@HUNT-DOG]

Oooh she strange

[@RobertDoosh]

yep.

[@vv7848]

Great intro

[@TheCebulon]

What happened to them? "Where she should have walked..."? Did they die?

[@funkysmokee8764]

i think at the moment she's missing ... some people say presumed dead, so she can keep her mouth shut.

[@joshuaoha]

@@EmmanuelMotelin iT's aLl A cOnSpiRAcY!!!!

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

He said where she would have walked. I think he means where she did walk but he wasn't there to see it so he can't say for certain that she went in that door etc. They were arrested. He is still in jail. They let her out on bail for $3 million. I don't think she's on the run she's just waiting for her court date.

[@KS-PNW]

​@@funkysmokee8764 no. She's very much alive, and on house arrest with an ankle monitor.

[@VagoniusThicket]

On the beach in TelAviv . 😅

[@KhoiNguyens]

that guy at the end said, this isn't a movie...this has movie written all over it! haha

[@xenostim]

there's shows coming apparently lol. on hulu and maybe netflix

[@spacecowboy2139]

i see a Moonbird LOL 11:44

[@user-qq6vb6eh2l]

Where are they at with their indictment ?

[@KS-PNW]

She's out on bail he's still locked up. Theoretically trial is set for this fall but it's already been pushed back a half dozen times.

[@selbalamir]

people turn hoops trying to articulate Heather when basically the word idiot is fine.

[@KS-PNW]

?

[@kafkaesk3449]

6:35 the journalist watched Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic. He's a fan of Weird Al. I found someone who has the same interest as me.

[@ralphboyshline1518]

Which is the bigger crime? Stealing some crypto "currency"? The creation of a crypto "currency"? or Setting up a crypto "currency" exchange? (freely stolen from Bertolt Brecht ;-)

[@Victoria-zt7zy]

The music.

[@davidjma7226]

All of it is simply a distraction technique.

[@david5uper529]

I have seen every documentary about these people and not once do they focus on how the hack happened. I doubt that these idiots hacked an exchange and instead were instead hired to clean hacked funds and so ended up with the funds. Its one thing having burner phones, but these phones were in a ziplock bag and even labeled "Burner Phones". Why? Did they have their normal phones labeled "Non-Burner Phones"? It makes no sense except when it is a set up

[@xenostim]

I know, all I've gathered is that social engineering was used

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

If someone else competent was in charge wouldn't they have done a better job getting the money? Or spread it out among multiple people?

[@FlorisDVijfde]

They didn't do the hack it seems. They were the fools who thought they could launder the money...or they were patsies. But how did the hacker contact them? I certainly don't trust the FBI or IRS. They needed to score. Too many questions.

[@robertdegruchy160]

Unfortunately too many people in this industry are ethically challenged...but they show the clues...the woman is blatantly insane and amoral...

[@duaneswaby622]

*immoral

[@tlustypaczek]

She is aesthetically challenged

[@KS-PNW]

Because she does novelty rap? That seems like a bit of a leap.

[@maxsolomun8816]

this netflix tv show appears again

[@benjaminblakemore9704]

I HOPE THEY GO AFTER LOGAN PAUL NEXT.....

[@tedsonkabiru4349]

They were ready to be arrested let them face it 😅

[@thomastimmer6599]

The penalties are far too lenient and should be tough. Hackers know what they are doing. Only extremely harsh penalties also deter.

[@jaridkeen123]

What is that top lip makeup 💄 5:10

[@BetoBrown2]

I think she didnt know were the money really came from. Her job was only spend it. And i think he knows a lot.

[@KS-PNW]

Then what was up with her trying to lock the cellphone? I guess she could have been aware that the money wasn't completely legit without knowing exactly why.

[@CryptosRUs]

Thanks for sharing my clip!

[@MrSupernova111]

Who are you?

[@DrCruel]

Ozark.

[@VagoniusThicket]

Tel Aviv !

[@nikone4129]

The problem with this story is not what we are told, but what the media doesn't question or ask. I have yet to see any connection whatsoever that they stole the Bitcoin. Somehow they wound up with access to that Bitcoin and stored it in an incredibly sloppy and amateur way. It's obvious they didn't hack it. But how did they end up with it? Not a single story I've watched or read even dares peek into how they got it, and that my friends is a much bigger and more interesting tale.

[@mathewgrelr7084]

I seen somewbere that her job was to get some info by social engneering, she pretended to be a journalist or job applicant flirted with some employees of bitfinex and then some group helped her with tbe acuail hacking

[@nikone4129]

@@mathewgrelr7084 The hack was pretty sophisticated considering the level of security that would be in place for the private keys to all that. Makes me wonder if it's dumb luck, like Llewelyn Moss finding that suitcase full of money from a Cartel drug deal gone bad in No Country For Old Men. Or more sinister, someone hacked it, told her, and her and her hubby killed them for it.

[@medes5597]

They weren't charged with the hack. The media had to be careful about what they said given that. But Dutch has since given a fairly in depth explanation and the DOJ have said they don't think anyone else is involved. It's a combination of Dutch being a lot more skilled of a hacker than he may seem, and Bitfinex having awful security. He got in and basically just sat on it for weeks, watching how it worked, and doing nothing and then struck all at once. All the technical stuff - the way they spiderwebbed it through various wallets, the way they laundered it with alphabay and other darknet markets, etc was all Dutch. It seems Heather was mostly involved in charming people at crypto exchanges to keep accounts they wanted to freeze or close as open for long as possible. But yeah it seems like it was all them.

[@yokomotooto1255]

Deflection from SBF 🤣

[@goodfella_]

This guy gets it.

[@peaceformula5830]

Exactly. The timing. The Noses 👃🥸 are up to their tricks

[@KS-PNW]

​@@peaceformula5830 except this happened way before the sbf stuff broke.

[@esterhudson5104]

A disjointed amalgamation of bits and pieces of other celebs. How sad and tragically unoriginal.

[@franciscovarela7127]

America in a nutshell...literally.

[@HUNT-DOG]

America criminalizes these types of activities. Literally…

[@VagoniusThicket]

@@HUNT-DOGNot enough .

[@esterhudson5104]

She grew up in California? You don’t say….

[@mmm-cake]

Education pays in the long run ✨

[@esterhudson5104]

Lol. With a face like that; needs must. 😁

[@deni949]

great minds!

[@alter3go411]

Its amazing when you realise they look like petty thieves compared to what is going on now.

[@KS-PNW]

Not really. At one point their haul was ~60% the size of Bankman-Fried's.

[@VagoniusThicket]

@@KS-PNWThere is a common denominator here . Fried,Lichtenstein ,,,,,😅

[@KS-PNW]

@@VagoniusThicket Kenneth Lay, Martha Stewart.... It's not hard to name two people convicted of financial crimes. Two hardly constitutes a trend though..

[@mie-]

her name is Tether?????

[@KS-PNW]

Heather

[@alfiey5783]

Holy the look like bro and sis 0:53

[@VagoniusThicket]

Oy veh !

[@adrianadestino6420]

Fantastic update, greatly appreciated. On the other hand there are many ways of manipulating the market. I am glad as a small investor that I am putting my hard earned savings into the most, that being said the only transparent market is day trading. My thanks goes to Kaiser Coin for helping me gain over 11btc with his method through trading as it is the only transparent market.

[@adrianadestino6420]

He is on telegramm

[@adrianadestino6420]

@k99coin

[@bayerjared9425]

Yeah, you're right ... just yesterday i made a huge cash out using his signal…

[@adrianadestino6420]

You can reach him on tel

[@jpcolindesign517]

It's like "Brewster's Millions," the movie, but in the real world. Thank goodness so many people are gullible! *Sigh*

[@nedflembeg2347]

Dam she thickkkkkk 1 email a day for 10 years is 3k emails

[@steveeuphrates-river7342]

Nerdinghood

[@isiglz]

Cringe has entered the chat

[@caesar_cipher]

I admit I think Razzlekhan Heather is hot. Well Razzle Dazzle now that u are poor again, maybe we can give it a go ?

[@KS-PNW]

She's out on 3 million dollar bail, that's not poor.

[@VagoniusThicket]

You not kosher!

[@Sheyii]

Razzlekhan & Dutch. Please make a movie

[@zhoshuagimson]

Now Bitfinex cares about the safety of users on its platforms.

[@natanielb1445]

alright bitfinex bot

[@KS-PNW]

The SEC begs to differ lol

[@radry100]

Another example whats wrong with america.

[@KS-PNW]

How so?

[@mmm-cake]

Don’t do drugs mm kay…. 🤣

[@davidjma7226]

Sounds like Scam Bankman Fraud and his gf all over again!

[@xenostim]

The bitfinex hack happened back in 2016, so maybe SBF and co were inspired by them. I do wonder if they ever met in nyc

[@KS-PNW]

Not really the same at all. Ones a hack or social engineering job, the other was a ponzi scam.

[@VagoniusThicket]

@@xenostimat the Lox and bagel deli .

[@mtljin]

they should not go to prison for stealing bitcoins. but they should go to jail for that music

[@user-oi3yb7mm7h]

Right thinking is more reliable than sentiment. One who lives for the well-being of others is someone who has passion for life. One who is compassionate, always ready to help and to awaken others spiritually is truly an enlightened individual. They will live a life full of blessings.

[@KS-PNW]

Cool story bro

[@Brotoshi]

Legendary 😂

[@artemasward5842]

Dat Grl Got Mo Money dan prez Trump.

[@jax10x]

SBF: Yoo!!

[@NoobSaibot3]

heather has a horrible lisp

[@nozzer2002]

I dont think those pair of nitwits could pull it off on their own,theres a Mr Big out there somewhere...

[@bruthamann5697]

She'll have plenty of time to fine tune her rap career. 😎

[@dimetriogontsy9505]

This is a strange story, but it is unlikely that Bitfinex will allow this to happen again.

[@johnc2438]

Yeaaaahhhhhrrrrriiiiigggghhhhhttttt! 🤣🤣

[@tim0tej]

Bitfinex paid bots in comments 😂

[@dimetriogontsy9505]

@@tim0tej Do you really think so? You are wrong of course. Rather, it looks like bitfinex's competitors are paying you.

[@duaneswaby622]

@@tim0tejthere are so many 😂 it’s so obvious

[@TundraKaffe1]

Why is the title called "Did This Couple Launder Billions of Dollars in Bitcoin?" doesn't make much sense but ok...

[@robertmartin2262]

I think its saying, did this couple really launder.......??? as in can you believe these nerdy idiots actually got away with it for so long.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

It's possible that they didn't steal it themselves, IE do the actual hack. Someone else may have done it and passed on the money to them. But there doesn't seem to be any evidence for that. The title should be steal imo.

[@KS-PNW]

​@@adrianthoroughgood1191 on the contrary, the fact that they haven't been charged with actually stealing the money suggests that they weren't the original thieves.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

@@KS-PNW could be. Or it could be that they just don't have enough evidence to prove they stole it. We don't really know either way. Maybe it'll all come out eventually.

[@KS-PNW]

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 fair point. We may get an answer when the trial starts/ they plead out but until then your right, we really don't know.

[@first6969]

After Seeing The Lady... Happens When We Get More Than What We Deserve Or What We Are Worthy Of. Of Course She Let Success Into Her Head...

[@yossiefh]

White chocolate still the man

[@fredhampton321]

Ftx was 2.0

[@KS-PNW]

Not really. He ran a ponzi scheme, they (or someone they worked with) hacked a business and transferred funds outside the company. They're both crimes but that's about the only similarity.

[@AndrisSoroka]

What if they wouldnt be caught? That music would go viral and be as popular as all the other pop music?:)

[@Maciejfw]

I just think Heather is amazing

[@jonsnow6741]

uk encrypto gang had 167 million in bit coin when caught and they could only go back 18 months . Thats 1 gang how many are there out there ?

[@KS-PNW]

Huh? What do you mean "only go back 18 months." Crypto transactions are all logged in the blockchain, thats essentially permanent.

[@jonsnow6741]

@@KS-PNW that is what the police said in court .

[@firestarter1888]

Reported on literally years after it happened 😅

[@amansingh5559]

Lol

[@Vaderoid]

This dude doesn't read anything unless it's bReAkInG. What a take.

[@angusmatheson8906]

So? This is how you do a deep dive on a story most don't know much about. What a dumb take.

[@seanedghill5025]

It's still a great story!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jupiterjones3789]

@@seanedghill5025 I can't get enough of it^^

[@farahmo4519]

Crypto is a scam!!!

[@a.d8022]

Important Lesson: Never judge a person by its color

[@KS-PNW]

What about this story made you think of that?

[@VagoniusThicket]

Really ,,that’s all you can say? 🤦🏻‍♂️

i dont blame the scamers i blame the idiots that believe in them

[@alexandergreene8027]

"Russian" immigrants

[@peaceformula5830]

Oy Vey

[@tjakkobosma5872]

It’s bitcoin not bitcoins

[@BigHenFor]

Lol! It is what it is.

[@Fudmottin]

If I had one Sat for everyone who made that mistake...

[@tjakkobosma5872]

@@BigHenFor In the title they did it wrong but they changed it shortly after I commented

[@DobergHolland]

I always knew that my choice of this exchange would be the best in the last year

[@KS-PNW]

Because that sounds like something a human being would say.. The Bitfinix bots are out in force in the comment section lol

[@mosaicskulls8071]

Jr. Hunter Biden video

[@nethanlukas2514]

Cryptocurrency is the future, I think now is the right time to invest and trade crypto. I have been on a part of financial freedom since I accepted crypto

[@darwinjefferson7753]

Are you sure about that? I’ve lost a lot trying to trade the crypto market on my own. I’m just so confused cause of the price fluctuations

[@nethanlukas2514]

You have to understand that cypto trading is not magic. You have to work with a pro to make profitable trades. I work with a pro mac_wood who trades and returns my profit. In that case i dont stress about market analysis still i make enough profit.

[@liamoliver9841]

I have heard about investments with mac_wood, I need to know how safe are the profits.

[@nethanlukas2514]

@@liamoliver9841 Your profits are safe, over a hundred percent return on investments diresctly sent to your wallet. working with mac_wood has been a blessing to me.

[@laurasedford7709]

@@nethanlukas2514 How do i contact him?

[@xZeroMechanismx]

Crypto project Big Eyes (BIG) will make you life changing money. They recently had a 3D billboard by the Hersey's store. The project has been carefully planned to reach the top 10 Meme coins😻😻

[@IsaacSMILE]

No.

[@paulpaintshop103]

No

[@winstonsmith8898]

Framed by the CIA.