It seems the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Avenue', Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who was granted $3million bail on Wednesday, led a second life a hipster New York rapper who performs underneath the road identify Razzlekhan.
In a collection of cringey movies posted to YouTube, the wannabe performer may be seen strolling round Wall Avenue whereas reciting lyrics reminiscent of: 'I am many issues, a rapper, an economist, a journalist, a author, a CEO, and a grimy, soiled, soiled soiled h*'.
Morgan's music movies, together with the 2019 single Versace Bedouin, are all on her YouTube web page along with varied unboxing movies. The web page has been made personal since her arrest.
She and her husband Ilya ' Dutch' Lichtenstein, 34, who had bail set at $5million had been each arrested for allegedly laundering $4.5billion in Bitcoin stolen within the 2016 Bitfinex change hack.
The pair had been arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on federal expenses of conspiracy to commit cash laundering and conspiracy to defraud america.
However when Morgan wasn't allegedly shifting round billions of {dollars} on this planet of cryptocurrency, she was taking to the mic and taking pictures rap movies.
One web site which determined to wade by means of all the footage steered 'Laundering billions in Bitcoin might not even be the worst crime of her life.'
'When she's not reverse-engineering black markets to consider higher methods to fight fraud and cybercrime, she enjoys rapping and designing streetwear trend,' her Forbes bio states.
Social media did additionally not maintain again as viewers to footage gave their verdict.
'This 'rapper' with an alias of RAZZLEKHAN aka Heather Morgan was charged at present in NYC, with being a part of cash laundering scheme that concerned Billions price of Bitcoin. I consider she ought to have already been in jail for all times for no matter that is,' wrote one consumer.
'It is like Fyre Pageant in human kind,' declared one other whereas one other declaringL 'that is the larger crime!'
'I wanna know who the audio engineer was, and what they went by means of' requested one other Twitter follower.
'Bass line seems like a fart that by no means ends,' wrote DJ Goldman Sachs trying to critique the providing.
Morgan says that she experiences synesthesia when music may be heard however shapes or colours may be seen.
Her web site explains that 'Similar to her fearless entrepreneurial spirit and hacker mindset, Razz shamelessly explores new frontiers of artwork.'
Critiques of her rapping do not current her in probably the most optimistic mild however it's nonetheless obtainable on-line.
'Her supply is tuneless, the bars are cringe and the accompanying music video is not significantly better,' declared Engadget.
In a single set of lyrics, Morgan may be heard rapping in regards to the scheme she is alleged to have carried out.
'Spearfish your password / all of your funds transferred,' she says.
'At all times be a GOAT, not a god rattling sheep,' she states in one other.
'Spirit of a revolutionary, energy of a dictator / like to be opposite, however I am fly like a gator,' the rap continues within the low-budget trying video.
They do not get significantly better in one other riff: 'Sure that was tacky/not less than I am not sleazy,' she proclaims as her alter-ego named Razzlekhan.
In a single track, 'Moon 'n Stars,' she raps about her husband calling him a a 'weirder model of Larry David' sampling him saying, 'I like you, I assist you, however I do not wanna be concerned.'
In whole, there are a couple of dozen songs overlaying all method of matters together with one the place the raps about smoking weed in a cemetery and a well timed rap about social distancing in 'Excessive within the Cemetery.'
Within the monitor 'Cutthroat Nation' she raps about phishing individuals's passwords. 'All of your funds transferred,' she states.
Different songs focus on the American healthcare system and its flaws and the way faux associates suck 'like a vacuum cleaner' within the track of the identical identify.
She adopts a freestyle rapping in one other monitor about investing in GameStop, Ethereum, and Bitcoin,
Morgan and her husband, Lichtenstein face cash laundering and conspiracy expenses. If convicted, they resist a most of 25 years in jail.
On Tuesday, prosecutors argued defendants the pair, who stay on Wall Avenue in Decrease Manhattan, ought to be denied bail, calling them flight dangers who nonetheless probably have entry to huge sums of cash.
Federal legislation enforcement officers mentioned they recovered roughly $3.6 billon in cryptocurrency - the Justice Division's largest ever monetary seizure - linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a digital forex change whose techniques had been breached practically six years in the past.
Lichtenstein is a citizen of each Russia and america and the co-founder of an internet advertising agency. Morgan, a rapper and former Forbes contributor, describes herself as 'an skilled in persuasion, social engineering, and sport concept'.
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The August 2016 Bitfinex hack itself was one of many largest crypto heists ever recorded - so huge that information of the theft knocked 20 p.c off Bitcoin's worth on the time.
Lichtenstein and Morgan are so far not charged instantly with perpetrating the hack, however slightly with receiving and laundering the stolen funds. The case was filed in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C.
It was unclear who can be representing the couple within the prison case and whether or not they had an lawyer to talk on their behalf.
They had been on account of seem in federal courtroom in Manhattan at 3pm on Tuesday.
The couple is accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoin that was stolen, after a hacker attacked Bitfinex and initiated greater than 2,000 unauthorized transactions.
Justice Division officers mentioned the transactions on the time had been valued at $71 million in Bitcoin, however with the rise within the forex's worth, it's now valued at over $4.5 billion.
'Because the grievance alleges, the FBI and federal prosecutors had been capable of hint the motion of Bitcoin from this hack,' mentioned Matthew Graves, the U.S. Lawyer for the District of Columbia.
He added that the cash moved by means of a serious darknet change tied to a bunch of crimes, in addition to cryptocurrency addresses tied to baby sexual abuse supplies.
Lichtenstein and Morgan are going through expenses of conspiring to commit cash laundering, in addition to to defraud america.
Prosecutors mentioned on Tuesday the unlawful proceeds had been spent on a wide range of issues, from gold and non-fungible tokens to 'completely mundane issues reminiscent of buying a Walmart present card for $500.'
Bitfinex mentioned in a press release that it was to working with the Division of Justice to 'set up our rights to a return of the stolen bitcoin.'
'We've got been cooperating extensively with the DOJ since its investigation started and can proceed to take action,' the corporate mentioned.
Bitfinex mentioned it intends to supply additional updates on its efforts to acquire a return of the stolen bitcoin as and when these updates can be found.
Tuesday's prison grievance got here greater than 4 months after Monaco introduced the division was launching a brand new Nationwide Cryptocurrency Enforcement Workforce, which is comprised of a mixture of anti-money laundering and cybersecurity specialists.
Cyber criminals who assault firms, municipalities and people with ransomware typically demand fee within the type of cryptocurrency.
In a single high-profile instance final 12 months, hackers induced a widespread gasoline scarcity on the U.S. East Coast when by utilizing encryption software program known as DarkSide to launch a cyber assault on the Colonial Pipeline.
The Justice Division later recovered some $2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom that Colonial paid to the hackers.
Circumstances like these show that the Justice Division 'can observe cash throughout the blockchain, simply as we have now all the time adopted it throughout the conventional monetary system,' mentioned Kenneth Well mannered, assistant lawyer basic of the division's Prison Division.
Justice Division officers say that although the proliferation of cryptocurrency and digital forex exchanges characterize innovation, the development has additionally been accompanied by cash laundering, ransomware and different crimes
'Toda'´s arrests, and the Division's largest monetary seizure ever, present that cryptocurrency isn't a secure haven for criminals,' Deputy Lawyer Basic Lisa Monaco mentioned in a press release.
'In a futile effort to keep up digital anonymity, the defendants laundered stolen funds by means of a labyrinth of cryptocurrency transactions. Due to the meticulous work of legislation enforcement, the division as soon as once more confirmed the way it can and can observe the cash, irrespective of the shape it takes.'
