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The owner of a crypto company was paying cops to get access to sensitive information and people’s whereabouts so he could use it to extort a victim for their crypto, federal prosecutors have alleged. Adam Iza, who ran the crypto trading platform Zort, Inc., allegedly paid three Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) deputies to unlawfully file search warrants and access police data, according to an FBI affadavit filed in an LA federal court on Sept. 23, made available on Sept. 26. Iza — also known as Ahmed Faiq and “The Godfather” — allegedly bragged about paying $280,000 a month to the deput…

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