Man Charged in $4.5 Billion Crypto Rip-off Denied Bail by Choose (1)

A choose in Washington D.C. denied bail to a person charged with attempting to launder billions of {dollars} price of Bitcoin stolen in a 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency change, whereas permitting his spouse to stay free earlier than trial.

U.S. District Choose Beryl Howell in Washington Monday overturned a New York choose’s ruling granting bail to the person, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, whereas upholding a choice that allowed his spouse, Heather Morgan, 31, to stay free pending trial.

On this courtroom sketch, Heather Morgan, left, and her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, proper, sit with their lawyer in federal courtroom in New York on Feb. 8, 2022.

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Lichtenstein and Morgan are accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 Bitcoin — now valued at $3.6 billion — stolen throughout a …