This is a really interesting moment, i think, in the law enforcement and criminal contest around crypto currency and bit coin. The government wasn't ultimately caught flat footed here. They were able to see some of the transactions that this couple were making as they tried to move and launder and use the money stolen from bitsags. But if you put the dots together, they seem to all point to that.
A tech investor and his rapper wife were busted for a multi-billion dollar bitcoin heist. They couldn’t really spend any of the money.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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