![Two New York residents arrested for alleged scheme to launder $4.5B in stolen bitcoin](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/02/NYC_1644510069.jpg)
The Department of Justice Tuesday announced that two individuals in Manhattan were arrested for an alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange. Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, allegedly conspired to launder the proceeds of 119,754 bitcoin that were stolen [...]