A $500 gift card was the smoking gun that led to the arrest of a Manhattan husband and wife - who dubbed herself the Crocodile of Wall Street - in a $4.5 billion heist.Ilya '' Lichtenstein, 34, and Heather R. Morgan, 31, were arrested this month after they allegedly conspired to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange platform, and currently estimated at $4.5 billion. Federal investigators say they were able to crack the six-year-old and tie the couple to the missing cryptocurrency by tracking the $500 gift card after it was sent to a Russian-registered email. The
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