Amazon is making a film on the Bitfinex money launderers
Razzlekhan, the reported title of the movie, was the “comedic rapper” name of Heather Morgan, who helped launder more than $3 billion worth of Bitcoin.
Amazon MGM Studios has reportedly started developing a movie based on the couple who laundered billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC) connected to the 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.
According to a Jan. 26 report from Deadline, the Amazon production studio is planning the development of Razzlekhan, a film focusing on the actions of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan and their role in laundering funds from Bitfinex. The script will reportedly be inspired by a 2022 New York Times article on the couple, branding them as “Bitcoin’s Bonnie and Clyde.”
Following the hack of Bitfinex in August 2016, in which roughly 119,754 BTC was stolen, Lichtenstein and Morgan laundered more than 94,643 BTC of the funds “in a series of small, complex transactions across multiple accounts and platforms,” according to prosecutors. Authorities in the United States arrested the couple in February 2022. They seized the Bitcoin, which was worth roughly $54 million at the time of the hack but more than $3 billion at their arrest.
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