The judge has allowed her to be released on bail for now, to not be held in jail, like elia is. But obviously, heather is the one who has had the most focus, i think, in the media because of her online presence. So what exactly do we know about her so far? Because i'm assuming it's quite a lot more. She was very prolific on liing tick tok yu to twirer and also wrote for forbes and ink magazine. And she really tried to paint herself as someone who came from nowhere to be a successful interpeter. In some of her readers and articles, she talks about how you just have to go for
Paris Marx is joined by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai to discuss the arrest of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan for trying to launder the $5 billion in Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack, how they were moving the money, how the authorities found them, and what lessons the case might hold.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is senior staff writer at Motherboard. Follow Lorenzo on Twitter at @lorenzofb.
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