The U.S. government’s $3.6 billion bitcoin bust this week appears to reflect its success five years ago in disrupting some operations used by criminals to launder stolen funds.
The Justice Department said that it executed a search warrant last week and seized 94,636 bitcoins from the online wallets of two alleged money launderers, Heather Morgan, 31 years old, and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34.
