BITPRISMIA
The DOJ recommendations on sentencing are the preamble to the judge’s final ruling. The pair are due to be sentenced in November.
"You can call it our first Bitcoin piggy bank," Bukele quipped yesterday on X. "It's not much, but it's honest work."
It's long been suspected the couple hacked the crypto exchange, but only now been confirmed by Lichtenstein's admission in court.
Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, will appear before a judge on August 3 and could face up to 20 years in prison.