- Heather Morgan, aka "Razzlekhan," has been in house arrest facing charges in a massive crypto scheme.
- A D.C. federal court is now letting her leave home just to work at a tech company's NYC office.
The era of tech layoffs hasn't fazed Heather Morgan, perhaps better known by her rap moniker "Razzlekhan," whom federal prosecutors charged along with her husband last year in a $4.5 billion bitcoin conspiracy.
Morgan has found work with an unidentified tech company for a "growth marketing and business development specialist" position, her lawyer wrote in a court filing on Tuesday.
The company in question apparently isn't in favor of full remote work even for the rare employee confined by house arrest — the role asks Morgan to be in the firm's New York office three days a week, according to the motion, which the D.C. federal court overseeing the case granted.
Morgan's lawyer also told the court that they didn't want to reveal the identity or location of her employer for security reasons, noting that she's received "disparaging comments and harassment on social media."
An attorney for Morgan didn't respond to Insider's request for comment on Wednesday.
Morgan, who was arrested with her husband Ilya Lichtenstein last February and accused of money laundering involving crypto from the Bitfinex exchange, was released and put under house arrest following a $3 million bond (backed partly by her parents' home, like Sam Bankman-Fried's much larger $250 million bail release), according to a filing in the case.
Prosecutors have been discussing "possible resolutions," that would avoid a trial, according to a filing last year by the government.
Morgan and her husband have indicated in their own filings that they'd "vigorously contest" the government's allegations.
"The money laundering accusations in the government's complaint are predicated on a series of circumstantial inferences and assumptions drawn from a complex web of convoluted blockchain and cryptocurrency tracing assertions," an attorney for Morgan and Lichtenstein told the court after their arrest.
Morgan has managed to wrangle some freedoms during her house arrest so far. Filings in the case showed that she told the court last summer that she was looking for work, and received its permission to take a job making more than $10,000 a month. She also got the court's approval to access crypto accounts, but only so that she can understand her tax liability, according to an order in September.
She's also been allowed to use both a computer and a smartphone, after she told a court that she needs it for "contract work" that she's doing and to look for jobs. "While awaiting resolution of this matter, Ms. Morgan has sought to be productive," her lawyer told the court in November.
Morgan wore a few hats in her past life, calling herself the "Crocodile of Wall Street," and writing columns. One of her pieces for Inc., "3 Steps To Become An Expert In Anything," now carries an editor's note at the top about her arrest.