Before his indictment on criminal charges, NYC Mayor Eric Adams promised to turn the city into a major crypto hub.
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Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole 120,000 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex, should receive a reduced sentence of five-years in prison, prosecutors say.
Online software development platform GitHub has a list of at least 15 recorded incidents of in person crypto theft in the last year, around 17 in 2023, and 32 in 2021.
Prosecutors said Bitfinex hacker Heather Morgan should receive a lenient jail sentence because she provided “substantial assistance” to the government.