Are they the Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde?

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According to the New York Times, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were charged with conspiracy to launder billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin.Credit.

Questions:

  1. What was the Bitfinex hacking?
  2. What was the role of the complex shuffling of Bitcoin by the couple in the fraud in January 2017?  
  3. When the government executed a search warrant at their Manhattan apartment, how many electronic devices were found and seized?
  4. What was the involvmenet of the couple’s cat in the arrest?

Source:

Watkins, A. and B. Weiser. (2022). Inside the Bitcoin Laundering Case That Confounded the Internet. The New York Times, Feb. 13 (Retrievable online at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/nyregion/bitcoin-bitfinex-hack-heather-morgan-ilya-lichtenstein.html)