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Frozen embryos will keep accused $4.5bn bitcoin money launderers from fleeing U.S., lawyer says in bail bid
A lawyer for the New York couple accused of an “extraordinarily complex” scheme to launder $4.5 billion in stolen bitcoin argues in a court filing that they are not a flight risk because, among other things, they want to stay near their frozen embryos. Morgan and her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, “previously froze several of her embryos at a hospital in New York in anticipation of starting a family together, as she can only conceive through in vitro fertilization because she suffers from endometriosis,” lawyer Samson Enzer wrote in the filing. “The couple would never flee from the country at the ... (full story)
