US accuses couple of laundering $4.5 billion in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack
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The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it has unraveled its biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft, seizing a record-shattering $3.6 billion in bitcoin tied to the 2016 hack of digital currency exchange Bitfinex and arresting a husband-and-wife team on money laundering charges. Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, New Yorkers spent the illegal proceeds on items, prosecutors said.