Heather Rhiannon Morgan (born ), also known as Razzlekhan, is an American entrepreneur, rapper and convicted felon. According to New York authorities, she laundered the proceedings from a heist of US$4.5 billion in cryptocurrencies.

Life

Morgan was born in Oregon, and grew up in

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. Her father is a retired biologist and her mother is a librarian at a high school. Morgan graduated from

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in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. According to her

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profile, she began her career as an economist and worked for the

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in Cairo and Hong Kong. In 2014 Morgan lived in San Francisco and founded SalesFolk, an e-mail marketing firm. In February 2022, Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein were charged by the

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with conspiracy to launder over $4 billion in stolen

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. The bitcoin were stolen in the

2016 Bitfinex hack The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. 119,756 bitcoin, worth about million at the time, were stolen. In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth billion, by decry ...

. She was released on bail on 14 February 2022, and convicted on 3 August 2023.

Self-staging

According to herself she founded a number of start-ups. She was investing in B2B software companies. Morgan was a columnist for '' Inc.'' and formerly a ''Forbes'' contributor (2017 to 2021). On her

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channel she gave business tips for getting rich. Morgan produced rap videos under the stage name Razzlekhan, in which she described herself as the "Crocodile of Wall Street". Her stage name is inspired by

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Discography

References

External links

Heather R. Morgan
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Razzlekhan's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Heather R. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American fraudsters American women company founders American women economists 21st-century women rappers People from Tehama County, California