At an initial court appearance, a magistrate judge ruled Lichtenstein could be released into home detention on a $5 million bond co-signed by his parents; the bond amount for Morgan was set at $3 million but they were to remain in custody until the bail conditions were met.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors had argued defendants, who live on Wall Street in lower Manhattan, should be denied bail, calling them flight risks who still potentially have access to vast sums of money.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Federal law enforcement officials said they recovered roughly $3.6 billon in cryptocurrency – the Justice Department’s largest ever financial seizure – linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached nearly six years ago.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lichtenstein is\u00a0a citizen of both\u00a0\u00a0and the United States and the co-founder of an online marketing firm. Morgan, a rapper and former Forbes contributor, describes herself as ‘an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory’.<\/p>\n
WARNING: EXPLICIT LYRICS\u00a0<\/p>\n