It’s a Very Crypto Scandal, But the Charges Are Serious

Here is the worst possible way to become a social media star. In her 2019 rap video, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan dances on the steps of Federal Hall in New York’s Financial District, wearing a shiny gold jacket and a wide-brim cap and proclaiming herself the “Crocodile of Wall Street.” You probably missed it when it came out. This February, however, Morgan and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, co-founder of a Y Combinator-backed tech startup, have been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to launder 119,754 Bitcoins that were stolen in a 2016 crypto exchange hack. Pretty soon, Razzlekhan was all over ...