In short
- Convicted money launderer Heather Morgan, aka “Razzlekhan,” will release “Turki$h Martha” later this week.
- It is her first song released since she was jailed for her role in money laundering from the 2016 Bitfinex hack.
- Morgan alleged that prison staff and inmates regularly asked her to rape her while she was in prison.
Heather Morgan, the rapper and social media personality also known as Razzlekhan, is working on new music as she emerges from federal custody.
The 35-year-old, who is serving an 18-month prison sentence for money laundering related to the 2016 Bitfinex hack and is currently under the supervision of a residential reentry management office in Sacramento, is expected to be fully released on December 28.
Her upcoming song, which appears to be titled “Turki$h Martha,” is expected to be released on Friday.
In one tweet On November 12, Morgan said the song became a favorite during her incarceration. “Both prison staff and inmates at Victorville loved this song and asked me to rap ‘Turki$h Martha’ regularly,” she wrote.
Morgan was convicted in November 2024 for her role in laundering more than 119,000 BTC stolen in the Bitfinex breach, making it one of the largest crypto thefts ever. Her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, received a five-year prison sentence for money laundering. He also claimed to have committed the hack himself.
Federal authorities recovered most of the stolen property Bitcoinnow valued at over $11 billion.
After their arrest in 2022, Morgan’s personal brand became a fascination in itself. Her online presence before her arrest included rap videos, entrepreneurial advice and lifestyle content in travel, fashion and technology. She recorded time spent in Turkey, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Egypt, as well as the US
While in Turkey, she studied at Bilkent University in Ankara as part of an exchange program.
Her rapper persona, Razzlekhan, attracted particular attention. She described the character as “Genghis Khan, but with more pizzazz.” In previous rap videos, which went viral after her arrest, she referred to herself as a “Versace Bedouin” and the “crocodile of Wall Street.”
The new song continues her idiosyncratic style. In one clamp shared online, she performs wearing an Ottoman-style war helmet and dancing next to another person.
Excerpts include lyrics like “that ain’t the Harlem Shake, shimmy, shimmy, earthquake,” “real bitch, nothing fake, just baklava, fuck cake,” and “I gotta go masturbate, kinda date at home alone.”
The full text, which appears to have been posted online by Morgan, also makes references to smoking hash, making the best lentil soup, doing an ‘inverse twerk’, baksheesh and – in a callback to ‘Versace Bedouin’ – being a Bedouin.
In 2023 and 2024, Morgan continued to create content prior to her conviction. She released a song describing the emotional strain of Lichtenstein’s impending incarceration and separation, and she maintained an active presence on Cameo, where she billed herself as “crypto’s favorite thug.”
Lichtenstein has since claimed in a video conversation posted online that his wife was unaware of the hack during the years it remained unsolved, claiming he was solely responsible for the crime.
Morgan management did not respond to a request for comment.
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