Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan are no ordinary couple. He's Russian-born investor and part-time mentalist magician; she's an entrepreneur, journalist, and rapper known as Razzlekhan. Together, they stole $72 million in Bitcoin.
the first time they arrived. An unmarked, nondescript government-issued vehicle pulled up to the towering brown brick and blue glass building in downtown Manhattan known simply by its address: 75 Wall Street. The city that never sleeps was in that rare moment when the ostinato of car horns and rattling subway cars had been replaced by a deep, albeit brief, slumber.
As the agents stepped in one of the building’s four elevators, the doorman wondered which resident of the 346-unit building, where condos can cost as much as $7 million, could be trafficking child porn. After a while, the agents came back to the lobby and left the building. “Nope,” the agents said. “Definitely this building.” And off they went to the roof again. Then, one evening, the pattern changed. The agents showed an interest in one specific floor. The signal they were after, it seemed, was getting stronger.
That was just the beginning, as I discovered in more than 50 interviews with friends and former colleagues of the couple, investigators close to the case, and employees and residents of 75 Wall Street. As the feds were about to find out, this would prove to be one of the strangest cases in the ever-evolving world of crypto crime—and the first clue of just how bizarre this case would become was sitting right there on the couple’s social media accounts.a new era of money.
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