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89. The Crocodile (Heather Morgan & Ilya Lichtenstein)

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Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan's Secret Life in Culver City, California

Investigators determined that Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan had cashed out millions of dollars. One of the couple's businesses had also applied for and accepted an $11,000 PPP loan during the COVID-19 crisis. But even with all of this evidence, it took another year to secure a search warrant. Investigators found everything except what they were looking for. And those were the private keys that belonged to the 120,000 Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex.

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