The 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and Her Husband Face Trial

Heather Morgan is galore things: a Forbes contributor, a tech entrepreneur and an alleged criminal. After her apprehension for alleged crypto wealth laundering, different persona was discovered: Razzlekhan, a campy YouTube rapper who declared herself the “Crocodile of Wall Street.”

Publications from BuzzFeed to the Washington Post person profiled the raunchy rapper astir her alleged billion-dollar frauds. And Vanity Fair has billed her arsenic one-half of crypto's Bonnie and Clyde – a rubric she's earned with her hubby and spouse successful crime, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein.

Morgan and Lichtenstein await proceedings for their alleged engagement successful a 2016 crippled to launder astir $4.5 cardinal successful cryptocurrencies stolen from Hong Kong-based crypto speech Bitfinex successful a notorious hack. Though they were not charged with pulling disconnected the hack itself, the mates were arrested and charged backmost successful February with conspiracy to perpetrate wealth laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Despite their mounting ineligible troubles, Razzlekhan has kept engaged portion retired connected bail, maintaining her Forbes column, among different things. Dutch, a Russian émigré, has remained down bars awaiting trial, an enigma seemingly overshadowed by his larger-than-life wife. And owed to America’s unusual fascination with unusual crimes and adjacent odder criminals, her prima whitethorn soon beryllium connected the rise.

Razzlekhan's ineligible troubles person paved a way for her to measurement earlier the white-hot klieg lights she seems to person ever coveted, and wherever she's receiving the afloat Hollywood treatment.

Hulu is producing a true-crime constricted bid astir Razzlekhan's beingness starring Lily Collins. Meanwhile, Netflix has ordered a docuseries connected the suspected shyster.

Infamy is inactive fame, right?