"Bonny & Clyde" Of Crypto Arrested Over $4.5 Billion Bitcoin Hack
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They are, to hear the feds tell it, a Bonnie and Clyde for the crypto age - made-for-TikTok personalities who broke bad, glamorously, right before their followers eyes.
They are, to hear the feds tell it, a Bonnie and Clyde for the crypto age — made-for-TikTok personalities who broke bad, glamorously, right before their followers' eyes.
She billed herself as “The Crocodile of Wall Street” and “Razzlekhan,” a surrealist artist and rapper with tattooed hands and, she boasted, more pizzazz than Genghis Khan.
He assumed a tamer persona: that of a “tech entrepreneur” and “occasional magician” who'd proposed, in a social media moment, via flashing billboards in Times Square.
At 7 a.m. on Tuesday, their blingy world of TED talk-style salons and music videos collapsed around them when they were arrested by federal law enforcement officials in New York City and accused of a crime that would've seemed preposterous in a halcyon, pre-cryptocurrency era: enriching themselves off a cache of stolen Bitcoin that is today worth about $4.5 billion.
