The couple, who have been dubbed “Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde,” were arrested last year for stealing a whopping 95,000 bitcoins in 2016 using “advanced hacking tools” but admitted to laundering as many as 120,000 coins in recent years. They each face a maximum 20-year prison sentence.
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'BTC Bonnie and Crypto Clyde' Plead Guilty to Massive Laundering Scheme
Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan pleaded guilty to laundering billions of dollars’ worth of stolen bitcoin. So reports Yahoo! Finance.
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