How The Government Tied One Couple to Billions in Stolen Bitcoin
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🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Before last week, husband and wife duo, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were known |
| 0:11.4 | if they were known at all as entrepreneurs in the cryptocurrency space. |
| 0:16.1 | They're both in their 30s. |
| 0:17.4 | They were both entrepreneurs. |
| 0:18.4 | They had a couple of different companies. |
| 0:21.1 | They weren't well known in the crypto world, but they were in the crypto world. |
| 0:26.2 | Our colleague Paul Vienia covers crypto. |
| 0:29.2 | Ilya had gone through a Silicon Valley. |
| 0:32.8 | It's sort of a training program for entrepreneurs called Y Combinator. |
| 0:36.8 | It's actually very, very famous. |
| 0:39.8 | Heather had a couple of companies also. |
| 0:42.5 | She was a contributor to Forbes. |
| 0:44.4 | She wrote articles for Forbes. |
| 0:46.2 | And she had this whole other career as a rapper. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm many things. |
| 0:53.0 | A rapper, an economist, a journalist, a writer, a CEO, and a dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, |
| 0:58.9 | ho. |
| 0:59.9 | She called herself Rosalcon, and she wrote rap songs and made rap videos. |
| 1:06.8 | One is about smoking pot in a graveyard and the spirit of possibly her grandfather comes. |
| 1:14.9 | Another is just about making money on Wall Street. |
| 1:25.7 | Rosalcon, the Versace Bedouin, the Crocodile Wall Street. |
| 1:29.6 | It's all this very, like, you know, making money and taking names. |
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