And of course, because the thieves used wallets they didn't control (from Avalanche) and an exchange (gate.io), the FBI was able to claw back a good chunk of it. Including Monero.
Also, chef's kiss for this parenthetical:
Tether, a cryptocurrency allegedly pegged to the U.S. dollar
It looks like they did it so bad in purpose, I don't understand.
People get caught when they are lazy.
“Tether a dollar token on a centralized database backed by US DEBT”
Fixed it