The married couple accused of trying to launder roughly $4.5 billion of hacked bitcoin were given different pretrial fates Monday – with a federal judge ordering the husband to remain in custody while his wife can be released on bond.The decision by Chief Judge Beryl Howell at the couple’s detention hearing in a Washington, DC, court overturns part of the ruling last week by a Manhattan federal magistrate judge who had allowed a bond release for both Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, 34, and his 31-year-old rapper wife Heather Morgan.Howell made the split decision that kept Lichtenstein behind bars, in part, by ruling that he was a greater flight risk than his wife given the evidence against him and his alleged familiarity with fake personas, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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