{"id":140589,"date":"2026-01-02T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=140589"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:10:08","slug":"trump-credited-for-release-of-bitcoin-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/02\/trump-credited-for-release-of-bitcoin-hacker-ilya-lichtenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Credited for Release of Bitcoin Hacker Ilya Lichtenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy stemming from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 Bitcoin from the global cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.<\/p>\n

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Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy stemming from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 Bitcoin from the global cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex.<\/p>\n

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Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy stemming from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 Bitcoin from the global cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy stemming from the hack and theft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}