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Narrator: In this episode
of "American Greed"...
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Billions of dollars
in stolen cryptocurrency.
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Narrator: someone's
laundering a crypto fortune.
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Is it a genius hacker,
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a state-sponsored terrorist?
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After six mysterious years, the
alleged launderer is unmasked...
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This is the craziest story
of the day, So here we go.
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♪ Razzlekhan,
the Versace bedouin ♪
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♪ Crocodile of Wall Street ♪
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Narrator: Heather Morgan...
A businesswoman,
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social-media influencer,
and journalist
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with a bizarre
alter ego called Razzlekhan.
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She saw herself
as a real entrepreneur,
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making things happen.
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Narrator: Her husband...
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Ilya Lichtenstein,
a budding tech mogul.
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He's, like, an opportunist
and a greedy one.
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Narrator:
They've got it all,
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and they love nothing more
than to flaunt it online.
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Aah!
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We call them the Bonnie
and Clyde of crypto.
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♪ Our mission is noble,
yeah, I wanna be a mogul ♪
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Watkins: They were either really
brilliant or really stupid
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or just crazy.
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Narrator: The government says
this crypto odd couple laundered
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$4.5 billion in stolen bitcoin,
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smashing records...
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This is the largest seizure
of cryptocurrency ever
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by U.S. law enforcement.
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Narrator:
"American Greed" takes you
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inside the investigation
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and online with the self-styled
crocodile of Wall Street,
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while the case is still
unfolding.
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Hey, we have an announcement.
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Could she and her husband
have razzle-dazzled
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one of the boldest and strangest
digital crimes of all time?
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Shin: The notion
that they could be laundering
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$4.5 billion worth of bitcoin
blew people's minds.
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Razzle dazzle! Agh!
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♪♪
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Narrator: Cryptocurrency...
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A fledgling market of digital
coins just a decade ago
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that has exploded into
a trillion-dollar industry.
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Some people ask like, "Is this
a new frontier in finance
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or is it some kind of goofy
Beanie Babies type phenomenon?"
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And the truth is that it's both.
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The overall crypto market
broke $2 trillion this month.
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Narrator:
The market grows so quickly
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that law enforcement
can barely keep up.
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Brown: Cryptocurrency
is kind of the Wild West
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in terms of regulation.
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There's a lot of room
for criminal actors.
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Narrator: In this new frontier
of digital scammers,
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one of crypto's
most notorious heists
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occurs on August 2, 2016,
when someone hacks
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a virtual currency exchange
called Bitfinex.
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Shin: It was hacked
for 119,754 bitcoin.
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And this was actually
a really startling event.
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Man: Trading on the digital
currency exchange
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was suspended after
that breach was discovered.
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Narrator:
The stolen currency
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is worth $71 million
at the time.
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Stealing all those funds
is a curse in many ways
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because this was obviously
a huge amount
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and one that was certainly
going to attract the attention
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of United States
law enforcement.
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Narrator: So who has the skills,
guts or foolishness
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to commit such a brazen crime?
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♪♪
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The crypto industry booms
despite the Bitfinex hack,
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especially in the Bay Area,
where Heather Morgan,
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who presents herself like many
other young strivers,
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dreams of launching
the next big thing.
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Morgan's come a long way
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from her humble
Northern California roots
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in Tehama, California,
a town of 400 people.
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Growing up, I did not have
a lot of friends.
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Narrator: She reflects
on her childhood in a video
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posted on her YouTube channel,
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one of nearly a dozen
social-media accounts
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in which Morgan shares
intimate details of her life.
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When you have 20 kids
in the class
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and they've all known each other
from first through eighth grade,
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and you're kind of weird
and different,
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you're gonna get
bullied mercilessly.
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She said that she didn't
really ever fit in.
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She had a speech impediment
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and sometimes
she would get bullied
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and people just didn't have
this ambition that she had.
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And I remember thinking,
"The ocean, yeah, it's big,
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but I'm a shark,
I belong in the ocean,
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not in a mud puddle or a pond!"
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Narrator: Morgan leaves behind
the mud puddle
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and has no intentions
of ever returning.
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She earns scholarships
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to the University
of California, Davis,
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graduating in just three years
with a degree in economics
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and international relations.
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She documents her travels
to Asia and the Middle East
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and begins collaborating
after graduation
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with an economics professor
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named Travis Lybbert
on an academic paper.
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She had a very quick mind.
She was very professional.
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You know, very put-together,
very aware of her image,
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all in the way
that you would expect
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of an aspiring
young professional.
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Narrator:
Though they communicate
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through Skype and e-mail,
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Morgan's ambition
cuts through cyberspace.
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Lybbert: There was kind
of a restlessness to her.
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Always kind of angling
for the next thing.
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She saw herself as
a real entrepreneur,
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as someone who was, like,
making things happen.
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Narrator: After their 8-month
collaboration ends,
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Lybbert agrees to write Morgan
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a letter of recommendation
to PhD programs in economics.
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But she never
takes him up on it.
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Looking back, I mean, the one
thing that does stand out
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is her signature block
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had evolved over
that brief period.
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And under her name was,
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"economist,
entrepreneur, hustler."
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Narrator: Morgan closes
the chapter on academia
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to pursue more
lucrative ventures.
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She had basically told a friend,
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"I need to go home
and make money."
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So she comes back
to Silicon Valley
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in the startup tech,
entrepreneur space.
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Narrator:
Morgan meets a mild-mannered,
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Russian-born entrepreneur
named Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein.
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Watkins: He's almost the polar
opposite of Heather Morgan.
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He doesn't seem
to want attention.
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Narrator: Nor could their
backgrounds be more different.
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Lichtenstein grows up
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in an affluent Chicago
suburb called Glenview.
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His parents had emigrated
from Russia
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to avoid religious persecution.
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Lichtenstein
meets Charles Austin
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in a computer coding class
at Glenbrook South High School.
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Austin: I would say
Glenbrook South's
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a pretty typical
suburban high school
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where you have some of, like,
the sort of John Hughes
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archetypal tropes of, like,
jocks, nerds, et cetera.
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We're definitely,
obviously, nerds, right?
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We're not [bleep] football
quarterbacks here, but...
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And I think he's sort of
underrated as a funny guy
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because he was probably very
quiet and kept to himself,
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but once you start to, like,
get to know him, it's like,
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"Oh, yeah, I really like
this guy, he's cool."
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Narrator: They aren't jocks,
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but they still like
to have a good time.
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Austin: Me and whoever was
in our lunch group at the time
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would just drive over
to my place
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and play poker
for, like, 40 minutes,
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keep that game set up,
and then come back the next day
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and keep playing
till we finished the game.
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There was nothing remarkable
about him
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as a poker player.
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It's not like it was like, "Oh,
damn, he's running the table."
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But again, he just, like,
fit right in,
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and it was fun to play with him.
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Yeah. Well, this is something
we just stumbled on here...
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Photos of 2006 prom
from the very end of high school
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and it's very funny that
the comment on these two photos
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from a friend of his
is "Ilya with a date?
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I don't believe it."
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I skipped prom to play poker,
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so it's news to me
that he went to it.
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Narrator: Lichtenstein
majors in psychology
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at the University of Wisconsin
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and heads to San Francisco
after graduation.
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He tries his hand
at several fruitless ventures,
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including a Ron Paul website
and a brain-supplement business.
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He also had a couple
of other websites
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that were sort of
in the dating realm.
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One called Adult Friend Grinder
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and another one called
findgeekgirls.com.
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Narrator:
Lichtenstein's fortune improves
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when he launches a marketing
company called MixRank,
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getting seed money from backers
like Mark Cuban.
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Lichtenstein's luck changes
on the romantic front, too.
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He finds a soul mate in Morgan,
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who shares his entrepreneurial
drive and sense of adventure.
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So it seems like they did
start jet-setting pretty soon
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after they met each other.
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There's photos of the two
of them together
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in, like, a private jet,
standing on the tarmac,
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him hanging out
with a monkey in Hong Kong.
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She has qualities that
he doesn't have
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of she is more social
and outgoing.
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the big entrepreneur before him
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because she is willing to put
herself in front of everybody
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and, like, make a sort of
character out of herself
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in a way that he never would.
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Narrator: Morgan
channels her wits and moxie
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into her own startup,
a company called SalesFolk
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that helps businesses
craft cold-e-mail pitches.
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That was one of the skills
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that she seemed
to be the proudest of
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because she would send cold
e-mails or finesse her way
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into connecting with people
and getting what she wanted.
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Narrator: The company motto
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captures Morgan's
towering ambition...
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[ Laughs ] I mean, it's, like,
comically meme-worthy.
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Goat is obviously
the greatest of all-time.
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Clearly even in fashioning her
branding, she was really leaning
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into this kind of underbelly
of Silicon Valley
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that's, like, the weirdest,
the boldest.
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So my first question
for you is...
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Narrator: Lichtenstein offers
advice to Morgan and sits
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for an interview on her company
YouTube channel,
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while she off-handedly
gives friends a hint
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of what he may really be up to.
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Heather introduced him
as a black hat hacker.
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A black hat hacker
is a type of hacker
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that pursues exploits
with malicious intent.
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So they not only have
these wild sides,
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but then I think they probably
foster that in each other
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and sort of feed off of that.
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Narrator: Morgan posts
a testament to her boyfriend
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in August 2016...
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The Bitfinex hack occurs
one day later,
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and someone's about
to start laundering
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all that stolen crypto.
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Up next on "American Greed,"
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Morgan unleashes
a brash alter ego,
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but could her lyrics
reveal a little too much?
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Narrator:
It's one of the biggest
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cryptocurrency heists ever...
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120,000 bitcoins,
then worth $71 million
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drained from accounts
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in the Bitfinex virtual
currency exchange
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in August 2016.
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The hackers stash the currency
in a digital wallet,
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a virtual account guarded
by a set of private keys,
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like a pin code.
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Shin:
Whoever had the private keys,
that they were the only person
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who was going to be able to do
anything with that money inside.
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Narrator:
But there's a catch.
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All that loot is hiding
in plain sight.
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Bitcoin was once touted
as anonymous,
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but every transaction
gets permanently logged
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on the blockchain...
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A public ledger maintained
by computer networks.
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The strange thing about
a cryptocurrency theft
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is that you can see
that these 120,000 bitcoins
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worth a fortune have moved
into a specific address,
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but they don't know
who the thieves are.
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It's like just beyond
their reach.
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Narrator:
It's a crime unlike any other
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Ali Watkins has covered
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on "The New York Times"
metro beat.
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It was like a huge
bank robbery happened,
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but then the money
just sat outside the bank
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in a locked getaway car
and no one could touch it.
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No one could solve it.
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No one could figure out who put
it there in the first place.
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And it just sort of had
this lore around it.
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Narrator:
A small portion of bitcoins
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begin flowing five months
after the hack.
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Jonathan Levin
co-founded Chainalysis,
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a company that helps
governments and banks
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solve high-profile
crypto crimes.
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Money started to move
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through lots of different
intermediary wallets
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and money ended up
going into AlphaBay.
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Rabenn: AlphaBay was
a dark-web marketplace,
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so that's essentially
like an Amazon.com
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but for bad things.
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You could buy drugs,
stolen credit cards.
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You could pay
for money-laundering services
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and you could even buy poison
if you wanted to kill someone.
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It also offered mixing
and tumbling services.
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These are services in which you,
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John Doe, can send your dirty
cryptocurrency to AlphaBay
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and AlphaBay will then mix it up
with other funds
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that have been sent to it.
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So it kind of acts, if you
imagine taking your dirty cash,
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putting it into
a washing machine.
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Narrator: Meanwhile, Heather
Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein
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are growing restless.
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Morgan struggles
to keep SalesFolk profitable,
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while Lichtenstein
suddenly moves on
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from his startup, MixRank.
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The couple exchanges
the California sunshine
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for Manhattan's bright lights.
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♪♪
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Morgan and Lichtenstein rent
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a $6,500-a-month apartment
on Wall Street.
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She furnishes it with
animal pelts and taxidermy,
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including a crocodile skull,
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detailing this and nearly
every facet of her life
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with Lichtenstein on TikTok
and other social media.
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This is my current look.
What do you think?
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Watkins: It reminded you of that
really quirky art friend
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who everybody says
has good taste,
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but you're afraid to tell them
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they actually have
really bad taste.
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Narrator: Morgan
branches into journalism,
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contributing dozens of columns
to "Inc." and "Forbes."
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Watkins: She just sort of willed
herself into this expert space.
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How did she do that?
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She started writing as
if she was an expert,
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as if she was an entrepreneur,
as if she was successful.
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I made my own path
as being both a writer,
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a software entrepreneur,
and a creative.
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Narrator: Nearly a year
after the Bitfinex hack,
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Morgan and Lichtenstein
are hardly a blip
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on the Justice
Department's radar,
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but that's about to change.
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♪♪
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Today the Department of
Justice announces the takedown
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of the dark-web market AlphaBay.
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Narrator: In July 2017,
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federal authorities
shut down AlphaBay.
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This is the largest
dark-market web-place takedown
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in world history.
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Narrator: Law enforcement
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seizes AlphaBay's main server
in Lithuania.
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And so suddenly, this thing
that had been a kind of,
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I don't know, black hole
in the middle of the blockchain
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is in the hands of the feds
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and they can see
all the transactions.
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Narrator: According
to a complaint later filed,
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the trove
of illicit transactions
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will lead directly to Morgan
and Lichtenstein.
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Brown: AlphaBay offered
money-laundering services
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and the records associated with
these money-laundering services
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may have played
an important role
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in allowing the government
to connect the stolen bitcoin
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in this case to Ilya, um,
Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan.
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I think that when that
AlphaBay server
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ended up in federal
law enforcement's hands,
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that was probably
the beginning of the end.
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I feel like I live
in two worlds.
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Narrator: But as the feds close
in, Morgan hardly lays low.
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Instead, she announces
a new career
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after complaining
of professional burn-out.
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I think I was pretty unhappy.
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So she started rapping as
a way to deal with the burn-out.
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Narrator: Morgan creates
a shameless alter ego.
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♪ Razzlekhan,
the Versace bedouin ♪
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♪ Come real far but don't know
where I'm headed ♪
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♪ Crocodile of Wall Street ♪
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♪ Silver on my fingers
and boots on my feet ♪
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Watkins: She's running
all over Wall Street
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in these insane outfits.
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She's making obscene gestures
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in, like, very buttoned-up areas
of New York in broad daylight.
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Narrator: While Razzlekhan
apparently shells out big bucks
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on rap videos,
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IRS agents
dissect the blockchain,
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inching closer
to identifying suspects
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they believe are laundering
the stolen money
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in one of crypto's
biggest heists.
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Rabenn: Not only
do blockchains not lie
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no matter how they're designed,
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cybercrime, in general,
is difficult
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because there are little bread
crumbs that are left everywhere
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unless you're
the perfect criminal.
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Narrator: Lichtenstein
certainly seems to know his way
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around the blockchain.
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In March 2018,
he forms endpass...
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A cyber company intended
to secure personal assets.
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We protect your funds with
multiple layers of security.
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Shin: You know, they didn't
appear to have much traction.
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Their businesses
were certainly not ones
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that would generate
a ton of income.
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Narrator: Morgan
and Lichtenstein's companies
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may not be earning much,
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but that doesn't stop them
from jetting off
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to exotic locations
on a moment's whim.
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Their 2019 summer itinerary
includes a month in a place
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that's not a typical tourist
hotspot... Ukraine.
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But are Morgan and Lichtenstein
merely on vacation
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or up to something
far more suspicious?
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Up next on "American Greed"...
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The government compares
this trip to a spy novel.
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♪♪
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Narrator:
It's been three long years
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since one of cryptocurrency's
most notorious heists.
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Hackers stole nearly
120,000 bitcoins
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from the Bitfinex
virtual currency exchange
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and stashed them
inside a digital wallet.
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Someone's been laundering
the currency
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by siphoning a portion
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through a dark website
called AlphaBay.
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But that's just one of many
tactics uncovered by the IRS.
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Another branch of it, though,
that's more mysterious
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goes into a cryptocurrency
called monero.
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Monero is a secure,
private, untraceable currency.
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It is open-sourced,
decentralized,
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and freely accessible to all.
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What we see oftentimes
in criminal investigations
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is that criminals
who are sophisticated
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use multiple different forms
of cryptocurrency
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and sometimes move between
different cryptocurrencies
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in order to try
and obfuscate the flow of funds.
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Narrator: Exchanging one form
of crypto for another
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is a laundering technique
called chain hopping.
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And monero is generally
thought to be
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pretty untraceable.
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Narrator: The IRS has never
revealed it can trace monero,
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but Andy Greenberg thinks
the Bitfinex investigation
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may show it can.
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And the government
reportedly has some help.
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Greenberg: There is an entire
industry now of companies
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who pull apart these blockchains
to follow the money.
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I would be very surprised
if Chainalysis was not involved
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in this massive Bitfinex case.
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Narrator: Chainalysis
co-founder Jonathan Levin
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declined to comment
on whether his company assisted
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the government's investigation.
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While authorities say
the digital clues
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left in the blockchain
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will eventually lead
to Heather Morgan
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and Ilya Lichtenstein's
doorstep,
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the luxury apartment, lavish
travel, and elaborate rap videos
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displayed in
their numerous online posts
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reveal a lifestyle
that appears to be far beyond
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what their small businesses
can provide.
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♪♪
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And yet, they show no sign
of slowing down.
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Lichtenstein announces
their engagement
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on Facebook that summer.
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It's like the most
groan-worthy proposal
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I can think of.
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Narrator: He describes hiring
an advertising agency
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to help him propose
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to "my best friend
and the woman of my dreams!"
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Watkins: Ilya took Heather
Morgan to Times Square,
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where he had put all of these
billboards up about Razzlekhan,
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who was clearly this alter ego
that meant a lot to her.
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Narrator: The proposal
doesn't come cheap.
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A Times Square billboard can run
from $5,000 up to $50,000.
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The next month, Morgan delivers
a curious speech
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at a New York City salon series,
bragging about having the skills
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one might need
to pull off a crime
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like the one the feds
are now investigating.
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She had a lot of skills
of persuasion
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and she used them for all kinds
of intents and purposes.
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I mean, some of the things
that she was talking about was,
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you know, like crashing people's
weddings and stuff like that,
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or figuring out a way to talk
to, like, a famous person
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or, you know, things like that.
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Still, a skill is a skill.
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Narrator:
The Justice Department
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later says Morgan
and Lichtenstein
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weren't simply wedding crashers.
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They used their skills
to launder billions of dollars
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of bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex.
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♪♪
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The government points to a trip
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that Morgan and Lichtenstein
took to Kyiv,
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the Ukrainian capital,
later that summer.
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The government compares
this trip to a spy novel.
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It seemed to be kind of
their test balloon of,
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you know, how can we get
fake identities delivered?
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Narrator: One package was
reportedly delivered to a hotel
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from Vladivostok,
Russia, on September 9th.
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The Justice Department alleges
Lichtenstein created files
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with detailed information
463
00:23:38,735 --> 00:23:42,405
about Russian personas
the very next day.
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Rabenn: The implication is
that they had ordered
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fake identity documents
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to be sent to them
in the Ukraine
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that potentially they could use
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if they ever had to flee
the United States.
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Watkins: The whole thing is
always just a knife's edge away
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of either being James Bond
or knockoff Austin Powers.
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They were either really
brilliant or really stupid
472
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or just crazy.
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♪♪
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Narrator:
Back in Manhattan,
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Morgan and Lichtenstein
resume business as usual.
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He launches an investment firm
called Demandpath.
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Morgan expands
her digital footprint,
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pushing content
across social media.
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Another interesting part about
her Forbes profile is her bio.
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She writes...
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She wrote an article...
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Narrator:
In light of her warning,
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Razzlekhan's new rap video
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contains lyrics
that sound rather ironic.
485
00:25:04,420 --> 00:25:07,490
Fishing in general is where
someone will try to get you
486
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to hand your password
over to them so that they can,
487
00:25:10,493 --> 00:25:12,462
in this case,
transfer your funds,
488
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Rewind that. What?
Did she really just say that?
489
00:25:15,031 --> 00:25:16,408
Like, rewind that
and play it again.
490
00:25:16,432 --> 00:25:18,434
Make sure we heard that right.
491
00:25:21,771 --> 00:25:25,208
Um...[laughs]
492
00:25:25,241 --> 00:25:26,709
Narrator: All this time,
493
00:25:26,743 --> 00:25:30,179
the value of the bitcoin
stolen from Bitfinex soars...
494
00:25:30,213 --> 00:25:33,483
From $71 million in August 2016
495
00:25:33,516 --> 00:25:39,522
to nearly $3.5 billion
in January 2021.
496
00:25:39,555 --> 00:25:42,291
And federal authorities
are now convinced
497
00:25:42,325 --> 00:25:44,661
Heather Morgan
and Ilya Lichtenstein
498
00:25:44,694 --> 00:25:48,097
are the ones
laundering the crypto.
499
00:25:48,131 --> 00:25:51,267
Up next on "American Greed,"
500
00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:54,270
Morgan and Lichtenstein head
to the altar
501
00:25:54,303 --> 00:25:56,973
with the feds
right on their heels.
502
00:25:57,073 --> 00:26:01,110
♪ Turkish Martha Stewart! ♪
503
00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:15,625
Narrator: Four years after
someone began laundering bitcoin
504
00:26:15,658 --> 00:26:19,562
stolen from the Bitfinex
virtual currency exchange,
505
00:26:19,595 --> 00:26:22,007
Heather Morgan
and Ilya Lichtenstein
506
00:26:22,031 --> 00:26:23,466
seem to be thriving,
507
00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:27,503
at least to friends and family
in their hometowns.
508
00:26:27,537 --> 00:26:29,706
The handful of people
that I've kept in touch with
509
00:26:29,739 --> 00:26:31,507
at high school,
510
00:26:31,541 --> 00:26:33,710
they definitely saw him
as successful.
511
00:26:33,743 --> 00:26:36,813
Like, this guy is making money
and doing his thing
512
00:26:36,846 --> 00:26:38,081
and doing well, yeah.
513
00:26:38,114 --> 00:26:39,949
Narrator:
Projecting an image of success
514
00:26:40,049 --> 00:26:41,951
on social media isn't a crime,
515
00:26:42,051 --> 00:26:45,355
but Morgan takes it
to a whole different level.
516
00:26:45,388 --> 00:26:48,124
But I also am a writer,
I'm a rapper,
517
00:26:48,157 --> 00:26:50,259
I designed
some streetwear fashion
518
00:26:50,293 --> 00:26:53,396
and a bunch of other stuff
with surrealistic art.
519
00:26:53,429 --> 00:26:59,044
So I, right now, am basically
living my ideal life.
520
00:26:59,068 --> 00:27:00,903
That's it.
Razzle dazzle! Agh!
521
00:27:01,004 --> 00:27:02,271
She does this gesture a lot.
522
00:27:02,305 --> 00:27:03,706
Like, she goes like this a lot.
523
00:27:03,740 --> 00:27:06,986
And be sure to razzle dazzle!
Agh!
524
00:27:07,010 --> 00:27:09,612
Agh! Agh! Agh!
525
00:27:09,645 --> 00:27:13,349
Shin: It's like not a pretty
look, and she loves it.
526
00:27:13,383 --> 00:27:16,252
She, I think, was trying
to shock people.
527
00:27:16,285 --> 00:27:19,088
She would talk about "gilfs."
528
00:27:19,122 --> 00:27:20,390
Grandmothers I'd like to,
529
00:27:20,423 --> 00:27:22,001
you can fill in the blank
on that.
530
00:27:22,025 --> 00:27:23,860
Grandmother I'd like to [bleep]
531
00:27:23,893 --> 00:27:27,697
♪ Maybe a grandma,
but still a sex symbol ♪
532
00:27:27,730 --> 00:27:31,534
♪ Keep the... more nimble
than a gimbal ♪
533
00:27:31,567 --> 00:27:35,838
♪ Hella, gilfalicious,
looking so delicious ♪
534
00:27:35,872 --> 00:27:39,342
Narrator: Morgan's constant urge
to broadcast every facet
535
00:27:39,375 --> 00:27:43,746
of her life can grate
on her more reserved fiancé.
536
00:27:43,780 --> 00:27:46,182
And in some of the videos,
he can seem
537
00:27:46,215 --> 00:27:49,319
a little bit uncomfortable
with being on camera.
538
00:27:49,352 --> 00:27:50,596
Are you going to
keep filming me,
539
00:27:50,620 --> 00:27:52,255
expecting something to happen?
540
00:27:52,288 --> 00:27:55,258
What do you want me to do?
You just want me to, like,
541
00:27:55,291 --> 00:27:58,061
shove something up my [bleep]
and do a little dance?
542
00:27:58,094 --> 00:27:59,305
Watkins:
I do still wonder, like,
543
00:27:59,329 --> 00:28:00,697
where did that
actually come from?
544
00:28:00,730 --> 00:28:03,976
Like, who was she
when nobody was TikToking her?
545
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,337
She was really loved by this
small group of friends
546
00:28:07,370 --> 00:28:09,138
and people
spoke very highly of her,
547
00:28:09,172 --> 00:28:11,341
said she was
a very loyal friend.
548
00:28:11,374 --> 00:28:12,775
Said she was there for them
549
00:28:12,809 --> 00:28:15,411
during some really
traumatic life experiences.
550
00:28:15,445 --> 00:28:17,313
So you wonder how much of it
551
00:28:17,347 --> 00:28:22,018
was just escalated for clicks
and for online attention.
552
00:28:26,856 --> 00:28:28,291
Rabenn: I see an individual
553
00:28:28,324 --> 00:28:31,661
who seems to be
somewhat detached from reality.
554
00:28:34,497 --> 00:28:38,434
And appears to me to be
someone who would be likely
555
00:28:38,468 --> 00:28:40,436
to get involved
in something like this.
556
00:28:40,470 --> 00:28:45,208
♪ I'm a [bleep] lizard,
married to a God[bleep] wizard ♪
557
00:28:45,241 --> 00:28:47,810
Their view of the world
doesn't quite match up
558
00:28:47,844 --> 00:28:49,479
with how others see it.
559
00:28:49,512 --> 00:28:51,414
Your real self is always
your best self.
560
00:28:51,447 --> 00:28:54,617
Razzle dazzle!
Stay awkward and weird!
561
00:28:54,651 --> 00:28:56,586
Narrator:
Morgan and Lichtenstein
562
00:28:56,619 --> 00:28:59,288
don't seem to realize
time is running out.
563
00:28:59,322 --> 00:29:02,325
Aah!
564
00:29:02,358 --> 00:29:06,396
In a government complaint,
the IRS shows how it traced
565
00:29:06,429 --> 00:29:09,098
the flow
of stolen Bitfinex bitcoin
566
00:29:09,132 --> 00:29:11,801
through several
virtual currency exchanges
567
00:29:11,834 --> 00:29:13,979
and foreign e-mail addresses
568
00:29:14,003 --> 00:29:15,471
to financial
and business accounts
569
00:29:15,505 --> 00:29:17,340
belonging to Lichtenstein
and Morgan,
570
00:29:17,373 --> 00:29:19,742
including their
companies SalesFolk,
571
00:29:19,776 --> 00:29:23,279
Demandpath, and endpass.
572
00:29:23,312 --> 00:29:26,849
They cash out of about $2.9
million worth of the money.
573
00:29:26,883 --> 00:29:29,052
As far as I can tell,
I think they largely spend it
574
00:29:29,085 --> 00:29:30,586
on themselves.
575
00:29:30,620 --> 00:29:33,999
Narrator: Investigators connect
the laundered crypto
576
00:29:34,023 --> 00:29:36,326
to purchases
made in Lichtenstein
577
00:29:36,359 --> 00:29:40,229
and Morgan's names for Uber,
hotels.com, Sony PlayStation,
578
00:29:40,263 --> 00:29:43,766
and a $500 Walmart card.
579
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,470
So these were very small
expenses, not, you know,
580
00:29:47,503 --> 00:29:51,908
buying expensive cars or buying
a yacht or buying a house,
581
00:29:51,941 --> 00:29:56,112
but rather the types of expenses
that are indicative of someone
582
00:29:56,145 --> 00:29:59,449
who's desperate,
who can't actually monetize
583
00:29:59,482 --> 00:30:01,250
the large amount of funds
that they have.
584
00:30:01,284 --> 00:30:04,387
It's actually probably easier
to just put stacks
585
00:30:04,420 --> 00:30:06,923
of hundred dollar bills
in a washing machine
586
00:30:06,956 --> 00:30:08,658
and launder them
through a casino
587
00:30:08,691 --> 00:30:14,097
than it is to launder $3 billion
of anonymous, hacked bitcoin.
588
00:30:14,130 --> 00:30:16,299
Narrator: The government obtains
a search warrant
589
00:30:16,332 --> 00:30:18,601
for Morgan and Lichtenstein's
e-mail accounts
590
00:30:18,634 --> 00:30:21,304
in August 2021,
591
00:30:21,337 --> 00:30:24,107
while they're busy
planning their wedding.
592
00:30:24,140 --> 00:30:27,443
Hey, we have an announcement.
593
00:30:27,477 --> 00:30:30,546
The fiancés catch wind
of the subpoena in a notice
594
00:30:30,580 --> 00:30:32,915
from their Internet
service provider.
595
00:30:32,949 --> 00:30:35,418
It didn't seem to concern them
because they go
596
00:30:35,451 --> 00:30:38,087
and throw
this huge wedding anyway.
597
00:30:38,121 --> 00:30:40,156
This is not
your typical wedding.
598
00:30:40,189 --> 00:30:44,527
This is more like a concert,
a festival.
599
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,963
Narrator:
Morgan is no blushing bride
600
00:30:46,996 --> 00:30:48,564
at their Los Angeles wedding.
601
00:30:48,598 --> 00:30:51,668
She's carried into the ceremony
on a royal bed
602
00:30:51,701 --> 00:30:54,937
and performs
one of her signature raps.
603
00:30:54,971 --> 00:30:58,107
♪ Turkish Martha Stewart! ♪
604
00:30:58,141 --> 00:31:00,843
Narrator:
But their honeymoon is short.
605
00:31:00,877 --> 00:31:02,145
[ Knock on door ]
606
00:31:02,178 --> 00:31:04,180
They've been married less
than two months
607
00:31:04,213 --> 00:31:07,917
when surprise visitors show up.
608
00:31:07,950 --> 00:31:12,322
Up next on "American Greed,"
the feds hunt for evidence,
609
00:31:12,355 --> 00:31:14,457
and they claim the crocodile
of Wall Street
610
00:31:14,490 --> 00:31:18,361
has no intention
of going down without a fight.
611
00:31:18,394 --> 00:31:21,130
Shin:
They had $40,000 worth of cash
612
00:31:21,164 --> 00:31:24,267
and plastic bags
with electronics inside
613
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:27,804
and the bag
was labeled "burner phone."
614
00:31:27,837 --> 00:31:29,405
Narrator: Want more "Greed"?
615
00:31:29,439 --> 00:31:32,342
Follow us on Instagram,
connect on Facebook
616
00:31:32,375 --> 00:31:34,944
and listen
to the "American Greed" podcast
617
00:31:34,977 --> 00:31:37,246
wherever you get your podcasts.
618
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:42,685
We'll be right back.
619
00:31:42,719 --> 00:31:50,719
♪♪
620
00:31:51,861 --> 00:31:54,664
Narrator: Federal agents
execute a search warrant
621
00:31:54,697 --> 00:31:56,075
at Heather Morgan
622
00:31:56,099 --> 00:32:01,104
and Ilya Lichtenstein's
apartment on January 5, 2022.
623
00:32:01,137 --> 00:32:02,672
According to the government,
624
00:32:02,705 --> 00:32:05,541
they seize a trove of evidence
implicating the couple
625
00:32:05,575 --> 00:32:09,712
in a scheme
to launder stolen bitcoin.
626
00:32:09,746 --> 00:32:12,382
Shin
They had $40,000 worth of cash
627
00:32:12,415 --> 00:32:16,119
and plastic bags
with electronics inside
628
00:32:16,152 --> 00:32:18,855
and the bag
was labeled "burner phone."
629
00:32:18,888 --> 00:32:23,035
Narrator: Agents also find fake
passports and two books
630
00:32:23,059 --> 00:32:26,129
with compartments
cut into their pages.
631
00:32:26,162 --> 00:32:28,498
They're empty,
but the government suspects
632
00:32:28,531 --> 00:32:32,301
this couple hatched an escape
plan and accuses Morgan
633
00:32:32,335 --> 00:32:35,405
of doing whatever she can
to cover their tracks.
634
00:32:35,438 --> 00:32:39,108
And as they're going
through this apartment,
635
00:32:39,142 --> 00:32:41,244
Heather goes to get their cat.
636
00:32:41,277 --> 00:32:44,414
Morgan: Clarissa!
637
00:32:44,447 --> 00:32:48,551
Watkins: As she's going to get
the cat from under the bed,
638
00:32:48,584 --> 00:32:50,887
she actually pivots
and grabs her phone
639
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,889
and tries to lock her phone.
640
00:32:52,922 --> 00:32:54,223
And they struggle.
641
00:32:54,257 --> 00:32:55,968
They had to, like, wrest it
out of her hand.
642
00:32:55,992 --> 00:32:58,594
Watkins: The intention obviously
being that Heather knew
643
00:32:58,628 --> 00:33:01,564
that if she locked the phone,
it would be a lot harder
644
00:33:01,597 --> 00:33:03,633
for government agents
to get into it.
645
00:33:03,666 --> 00:33:07,070
Narrator:
Federal authorities are more
interested in encrypted files
646
00:33:07,103 --> 00:33:10,306
on Lichtenstein's
cloud storage account.
647
00:33:10,340 --> 00:33:13,018
The government suspects
they hold the keys
648
00:33:13,042 --> 00:33:16,045
to solving a 6-year-old crime...
649
00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:18,848
Private keys linked
to a digital wallet
650
00:33:18,881 --> 00:33:24,153
containing bitcoin stolen
from Bitfinex in 2016.
651
00:33:24,187 --> 00:33:25,621
The bizarre thing about bitcoin
652
00:33:25,655 --> 00:33:27,399
is that you can, like, see
the money right there
653
00:33:27,423 --> 00:33:28,858
and you can't do
anything with it,
654
00:33:28,891 --> 00:33:31,828
you can't retrieve it
until you have those keys.
655
00:33:31,861 --> 00:33:33,529
Narrator:
While the government
656
00:33:33,563 --> 00:33:35,932
tries to decrypt
Lichtenstein's files,
657
00:33:35,965 --> 00:33:37,700
he and Morgan hire attorneys
658
00:33:37,734 --> 00:33:40,737
at a white-shoe
law firm called Cahill.
659
00:33:40,770 --> 00:33:45,541
Despite their legal troubles,
Razzlekhan keeps on tweeting.
660
00:33:45,575 --> 00:33:47,386
Brown: It's very possible that
the defendants believed
661
00:33:47,410 --> 00:33:50,213
that that encryption was
strong enough to protect them
662
00:33:50,246 --> 00:33:52,482
from any law-enforcement
investigation.
663
00:33:52,515 --> 00:33:54,350
Narrator: And yet,
the government says
664
00:33:54,384 --> 00:33:55,652
it breaks the encryption
665
00:33:55,685 --> 00:33:59,222
on Lichtenstein's files
within weeks.
666
00:33:59,255 --> 00:34:01,257
They find exactly
what they're seeking,
667
00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:03,259
according to a criminal
complaint...
668
00:34:03,292 --> 00:34:06,295
A list of private keys
to the digital wallet
669
00:34:06,329 --> 00:34:09,432
associated
with the Bitfinex hack.
670
00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:11,668
The IRS says the wallet
still contains
671
00:34:11,701 --> 00:34:15,538
nearly 95,000
of the 120,000 bitcoins
672
00:34:15,571 --> 00:34:19,375
stolen from Bitfinex
six years earlier.
673
00:34:19,409 --> 00:34:22,745
But that's not all
they reportedly find
674
00:34:22,779 --> 00:34:24,480
in Lichtenstein's files.
675
00:34:24,514 --> 00:34:29,585
Paúl: They found the document
of him searching for Russian
676
00:34:29,619 --> 00:34:33,032
and Ukrainian nationalities
and passports.
677
00:34:33,056 --> 00:34:36,526
They found the spreadsheet
of all the crypto accounts
678
00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:40,296
and the companies that they were
linked to and that was the end.
679
00:34:40,330 --> 00:34:42,365
They really didn't stick
that landing of like,
680
00:34:42,398 --> 00:34:43,933
"I would never
do something like that
681
00:34:43,966 --> 00:34:45,444
and even I wouldn't be putting
these passwords and stuff
682
00:34:45,468 --> 00:34:47,437
on my computer."
Like, come on, man.
683
00:34:47,470 --> 00:34:50,673
And I think what that
really shows is the confidence
684
00:34:50,707 --> 00:34:52,642
that they had in their
laundering techniques
685
00:34:52,675 --> 00:34:54,944
that they thought they
couldn't be identified
686
00:34:54,977 --> 00:34:56,179
in the first place.
687
00:34:56,212 --> 00:34:58,214
Narrator:
Morgan and Lichtenstein
688
00:34:58,247 --> 00:35:00,717
strike a united front
in a final selfie
689
00:35:00,750 --> 00:35:03,486
on January 31, 2022,
690
00:35:03,519 --> 00:35:05,588
while the government closes in,
691
00:35:05,621 --> 00:35:09,092
scooping up the 95,000 bitcoins
in the digital wallet
692
00:35:09,125 --> 00:35:13,296
the IRS says
Lichtenstein controlled.
693
00:35:13,329 --> 00:35:16,566
Today the Justice Department
announced it seized billions
694
00:35:16,599 --> 00:35:19,569
of dollars
in stolen cryptocurrency.
695
00:35:19,602 --> 00:35:21,404
Narrator:
The value of the bitcoin
696
00:35:21,437 --> 00:35:25,742
taken by the Justice Department
has risen to $3.6 billion,
697
00:35:25,775 --> 00:35:28,945
the largest seizure
in its history.
698
00:35:29,045 --> 00:35:32,482
U.S. authorities making an
arrest in an alleged conspiracy
699
00:35:32,515 --> 00:35:36,085
to launder billions of dollars
in stolen cryptocurrency.
700
00:35:36,119 --> 00:35:39,155
Narrator: Federal agents arrest
Morgan and Lichtenstein
701
00:35:39,188 --> 00:35:43,393
a week after seizing
the stolen bitcoin.
702
00:35:43,426 --> 00:35:45,795
Up next on "American Greed"...
703
00:35:45,828 --> 00:35:48,464
♪ Razzlekhan,
the Versace bedouin ♪
704
00:35:48,498 --> 00:35:51,501
Narrator: Razzlekhan
earns worldwide attention...
705
00:35:51,534 --> 00:35:54,404
but not quite the way
she had hoped.
706
00:35:54,437 --> 00:35:56,072
Noah:
The bitcoin crimes are nothing
707
00:35:56,105 --> 00:35:57,640
compared to calling
this [bleep] rap.
708
00:35:57,674 --> 00:35:59,609
♪ Always be a goat
not a God... ♪
709
00:36:08,550 --> 00:36:16,550
♪♪
710
00:36:17,292 --> 00:36:19,294
A massive crypto bust.
711
00:36:19,328 --> 00:36:20,762
31-year-old Heather Morgan
712
00:36:20,796 --> 00:36:23,632
and her 34-year-old husband,
Ilya Lichtenstein,
713
00:36:23,665 --> 00:36:25,534
were arrested
in New York this morning.
714
00:36:25,567 --> 00:36:28,270
Narrator: Just hours
after authorities arrest
715
00:36:28,303 --> 00:36:30,505
Heather Morgan
and Ilya Lichtenstein,
716
00:36:30,539 --> 00:36:34,276
the Justice Department
announces charges against them
717
00:36:34,309 --> 00:36:37,145
for their alleged roles
in a conspiracy
718
00:36:37,179 --> 00:36:39,314
to launder stolen cryptocurrency
719
00:36:39,348 --> 00:36:43,085
taken during
the 2016 Bitfinex hack.
720
00:36:43,118 --> 00:36:45,120
Today the Department of Justice
721
00:36:45,153 --> 00:36:46,588
has dealt a major blow
722
00:36:46,621 --> 00:36:50,826
to cybercriminals looking
to exploit cryptocurrency.
723
00:36:50,859 --> 00:36:53,829
Narrator: The value
of the 120,000 bitcoins
724
00:36:53,862 --> 00:36:58,042
has ballooned from $71 million
at the time of the theft
725
00:36:58,066 --> 00:37:01,403
to $4.5 billion.
726
00:37:01,436 --> 00:37:04,873
This is the largest seizure
of cryptocurrency ever
727
00:37:04,906 --> 00:37:06,408
by U.S. law enforcement.
728
00:37:06,441 --> 00:37:07,986
Narrator: If convicted,
729
00:37:08,010 --> 00:37:11,413
the charges carry a prison
sentence of up to 25 years.
730
00:37:11,446 --> 00:37:15,117
A federal judge in Washington,
D.C., releases Morgan
731
00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:17,586
to house arrest
on $3 million bond
732
00:37:17,619 --> 00:37:20,789
but orders Lichtenstein
held without bail.
733
00:37:20,822 --> 00:37:23,625
We called them the Bonnie
and Clyde of crypto.
734
00:37:23,659 --> 00:37:27,362
Narrator: The headlines
stun people who knew them.
735
00:37:27,396 --> 00:37:29,140
Austin: Everyone just started
texting each other who knew him,
736
00:37:29,164 --> 00:37:31,266
like, "Get a load
of this" kind of thing.
737
00:37:31,299 --> 00:37:32,577
Like, no one expected it
from him.
738
00:37:32,601 --> 00:37:34,703
Again it's not surprising
that he would be
739
00:37:34,736 --> 00:37:37,706
a relatively successful guy,
but there was no hint
740
00:37:37,739 --> 00:37:40,208
that he was prone
to any kind of criminality.
741
00:37:40,242 --> 00:37:43,345
I think he's not a bad person.
742
00:37:43,378 --> 00:37:47,049
I think he's probably
an opportunist and a greedy one.
743
00:37:47,082 --> 00:37:48,650
Total shock.
744
00:37:48,684 --> 00:37:52,254
Total shock because it was
just a wholesale transformation.
745
00:37:52,287 --> 00:37:54,923
I think I understand
that there was something
746
00:37:54,956 --> 00:37:56,291
always inside of her
747
00:37:56,325 --> 00:37:58,460
that was hungry for success
and attention
748
00:37:58,493 --> 00:38:01,163
and always kind of looking
for an angle.
749
00:38:01,196 --> 00:38:02,531
I would love to understand
750
00:38:02,564 --> 00:38:04,800
what the specific set
of incentives were
751
00:38:04,833 --> 00:38:07,803
that pushed her
to transform so radically.
752
00:38:07,836 --> 00:38:09,371
Roarr!
753
00:38:09,404 --> 00:38:12,574
Narrator: The public can't get
enough of Razzlekhan.
754
00:38:12,607 --> 00:38:17,913
Parsing every TikTok video,
Instagram post and YouTube rap.
755
00:38:18,013 --> 00:38:21,183
♪ I'm a... bad... ♪
756
00:38:21,216 --> 00:38:23,919
♪ Go on make me a sammich ♪
757
00:38:24,019 --> 00:38:25,387
The bitcoin crimes are nothing
758
00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:27,255
compared to calling
this [bleep] rap.
759
00:38:27,289 --> 00:38:30,592
♪ Bad... bad... bad... ♪
760
00:38:30,625 --> 00:38:33,061
Shin: The notion that someone
who kind of
761
00:38:33,095 --> 00:38:36,198
had such a goofy
social-media presence,
762
00:38:36,231 --> 00:38:40,502
could be laundering $4.5 billion
worth of bitcoin
763
00:38:40,535 --> 00:38:43,405
was just something
that blew people's minds.
764
00:38:43,438 --> 00:38:45,574
Gotta say, I waited
for this day,
765
00:38:45,607 --> 00:38:46,775
I waited for this moment
766
00:38:46,808 --> 00:38:49,678
where society has finally
generated to my level.
767
00:38:49,711 --> 00:38:52,748
Lichtenstein:
Degenerated.
768
00:38:52,781 --> 00:38:55,751
But perhaps one of the, like,
most notorious videos
769
00:38:55,784 --> 00:38:57,319
is the fluffy pancakes one.
770
00:38:57,352 --> 00:38:59,287
Lichtenstein: These are
famous pancakes.
771
00:39:00,822 --> 00:39:02,791
Watkins: People have been
waiting for years to see
772
00:39:02,824 --> 00:39:07,362
who could have possibly been
the evil geniuses behind this.
773
00:39:07,396 --> 00:39:08,897
And then the first thing you see
774
00:39:08,997 --> 00:39:12,601
is that video of her
having an episode over pancakes
775
00:39:12,634 --> 00:39:16,605
and the entire Internet
was just like, "Really?"
776
00:39:21,343 --> 00:39:24,913
When alleged criminals like
these are busted, everybody,
777
00:39:25,013 --> 00:39:27,716
especially in the cybersecurity
and the hacker community,
778
00:39:27,749 --> 00:39:29,627
likes to point to them and say,
"Look at all the mistakes
779
00:39:29,651 --> 00:39:32,321
they made,
look at these buffoons."
780
00:39:32,354 --> 00:39:35,157
You know, they did try
very sophisticated
781
00:39:35,190 --> 00:39:38,002
and rare techniques,
this dark-web thing,
782
00:39:38,026 --> 00:39:39,494
the use of monero.
783
00:39:39,528 --> 00:39:42,631
And yet somehow IRS
criminal investigators
784
00:39:42,664 --> 00:39:45,767
and I believe almost certainly
a company like Chainalysis
785
00:39:45,801 --> 00:39:49,504
were able to cut through all of
that and follow the money.
786
00:39:49,538 --> 00:39:52,374
Narrator: The government charges
Morgan and Lichtenstein
787
00:39:52,407 --> 00:39:55,019
in a detailed criminal complaint
788
00:39:55,043 --> 00:39:57,412
but holds off on indicting them.
789
00:39:57,446 --> 00:39:59,023
The evidence as laid out
by the government
790
00:39:59,047 --> 00:40:00,415
in the complaint shows
791
00:40:00,449 --> 00:40:02,017
that both Morgan
and Lichtenstein
792
00:40:02,050 --> 00:40:05,387
were pretty deeply involved
in the criminal conspiracy.
793
00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:08,123
I would assume that the defense
really want to claim
794
00:40:08,156 --> 00:40:10,325
that they're two babes
in the woods
795
00:40:10,359 --> 00:40:11,970
and they just sort of happen
to get caught.
796
00:40:11,994 --> 00:40:14,663
Narrator: The complaint accuses
Morgan and Lichtenstein
797
00:40:14,696 --> 00:40:17,032
of laundering
the stolen bitcoins
798
00:40:17,065 --> 00:40:18,667
but not the actual hack.
799
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,435
Well, there are a lot
of questions here,
800
00:40:20,469 --> 00:40:23,939
including who did the original
hack here back in 2016,
801
00:40:23,972 --> 00:40:27,509
leaving open the possibility
that there's more to this story.
802
00:40:27,542 --> 00:40:29,411
Rabenn: There's some connection
there, right?
803
00:40:29,444 --> 00:40:30,912
You just don't wake up one day
804
00:40:30,946 --> 00:40:34,316
and your crypto wallet
is funded with $3.5 billion.
805
00:40:34,349 --> 00:40:37,019
So either
he was directly involved in it
806
00:40:37,052 --> 00:40:39,388
or had some connection
to the individual
807
00:40:39,421 --> 00:40:42,224
or group of individuals
who were behind it.
808
00:40:42,257 --> 00:40:44,292
Narrator:
Though defense attorneys
809
00:40:44,326 --> 00:40:46,461
have argued
the government complaint
810
00:40:46,495 --> 00:40:49,431
reveals significant holes,
a judge granted a request
811
00:40:49,464 --> 00:40:53,301
to waive their clients'
right to a speedy trial...
812
00:40:53,335 --> 00:40:57,172
A sign both sides may be
working on a plea agreement.
813
00:40:57,205 --> 00:41:01,309
Lichtenstein and Morgan may have
at least one bargaining chip.
814
00:41:01,343 --> 00:41:04,446
Or rather, 7,500.
815
00:41:04,479 --> 00:41:06,615
That's the amount of bitcoins
the government says
816
00:41:06,648 --> 00:41:08,684
they believe
the couple still controls
817
00:41:08,717 --> 00:41:12,187
in hidden accounts
linked to the hack.
818
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:15,957
They're now worth $146 million.
819
00:41:16,058 --> 00:41:18,193
This is an important case
for the Justice Department
820
00:41:18,226 --> 00:41:20,495
because it's a precedent setter.
821
00:41:20,529 --> 00:41:23,198
The message to criminals
is clear...
822
00:41:23,231 --> 00:41:26,335
Cryptocurrency is not
a safe haven.
823
00:41:26,368 --> 00:41:29,404
We can and we will follow
the money,
824
00:41:29,438 --> 00:41:32,140
no matter what form it takes.
825
00:41:32,174 --> 00:41:33,518
Crypto's not going away;
we know that.
826
00:41:33,542 --> 00:41:35,053
It's certainly gonna fluctuate.
827
00:41:35,077 --> 00:41:36,712
It's gonna have its ups
and downs,
828
00:41:36,745 --> 00:41:41,984
but for so long, these spaces
were seen as lawless.
829
00:41:42,084 --> 00:41:44,186
This changes that.
830
00:41:44,219 --> 00:41:45,721
Narrator: Ilya Lichtenstein
831
00:41:45,754 --> 00:41:48,857
remains in federal custody
in Alexandria, Virginia.
832
00:41:48,890 --> 00:41:52,394
He declined
an interview request, writing...
833
00:42:07,242 --> 00:42:09,578
And as for the crocodile
of Wall Street...
834
00:42:09,611 --> 00:42:12,314
Heather Morgan
is on house arrest,
835
00:42:12,347 --> 00:42:14,549
a mud puddle of her own making,
836
00:42:14,583 --> 00:42:17,653
with strict limits
on Internet usage.
837
00:42:17,686 --> 00:42:21,289
And so, while much of her
social media remains online
838
00:42:21,323 --> 00:42:25,761
for everyone to see,
she can't shape her own story.
839
00:42:25,794 --> 00:42:31,233
And for Razzlekhan, that may be
the worst punishment of all.
840
00:42:31,266 --> 00:42:33,669
You can completely create
your own destiny
841
00:42:33,702 --> 00:42:34,870
with words and software.
842
00:42:34,903 --> 00:42:36,304
So that's it for now.
843
00:42:36,338 --> 00:42:39,608
Be sure to follow
to see more videos.
844
00:42:39,641 --> 00:42:41,109
Razzle dazzle!
845
00:42:51,586 --> 00:42:54,756
Captions by VITAC...
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846
00:42:54,790 --> 00:43:02,790
♪♪