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Jan 02 2026 Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release

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Netflix documentary part 2 in the works? Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges tied to the 2016 theft of about 120,000 bitcoins from the Bitfinex exchange and was sentenced to five years in prison, has been released after roughly 14 months in the slammer.... [...]

Posted by Jessica Lyons on Fri 02 January 2026 in The Register.

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