Crypto sponsor from LA: with police officers against rivals

A 25-year-old crypto fraudster from Los Angeles called himself “the crypto sponsor”-and had sheriff deputy work. They carried out fake raids, put rivals under pressure and did not report millions of bribes from the IRS.

Now there are long prison terms. The case shows how bizarre the crypto world became in 2025.

Crypto sponsor and its corrupt deputies

Crypto hacks, scams and scams are currently out of control, so bizarre incidents are the order of the day. In the first half of 2025, more crypto thefts were recorded than in any other six-month period before. Even large stock exchanges fall on social engineering frauds.

Nevertheless, today's incident, in which the “La-Pate” paid a sheriff deputy, which acted as an hired racket, could exceed all of them in boldness.

According to local media The 25-year-old Adam Iza began his criminal adventures by joining Kosovo with a hacker. The two broke into the safety of meta business accounts and sold them together with the associated lines of credit.

Iza earned this at least $ 36 million. From then on he called himself “the godfather” and recruited deputies for his crimes.

Legal Report Show that two sheriff deputies are guilty of working for this crypto sponsor. Several of their colleagues were also involved in his gang.

Iza used both these men and government resources to commit a number of crimes that mostly consisted of small revenge files. He did not use these men to make a lot of money, but to harass his rivals.

For example, Iza instructed his executors to subject personal enemies to illegal traffic controls, to determine their locations and to create fake search commands in order to have them arrested.

In order to maintain his “godfather” image, he ordered his deputies to capture rivals at a meeting in his Bel-Air villa with a gun held up until they paid him $ 25,000.

The two sheriff deputy David Anthony Rodriguez and Christopher Michael Cadman, who are now familiar with these crimes, were partly convicted for tax violations.

This crypto sponsor paid its deputies huge sums of money that they did not report from the IRS. It is unclear whether Iza you Fiat currency or Cryptocurrencies gave, but the tax fraud uncovered several of these “dirty deals”.

The sheer stupidity of this entire debacle is unmistakable. Iza was a criminal genius, but at least five accomplices, including his ex-girlfriend, were all caught because of tax evasion.

In the meantime, Iza himself spent his money for a villa, Lamborghinis and an experimental leg extension operation.

Obviously, the operation was unsuccessful or at least not compatible with prison life. A judge allowed Iza to visit a surgeon under federal supervision to have these experimental implants removed.

The so -called sponsor itself is in prison decades ago, and his deputies are sitting in the same boat.

Overall, this shows how crypto crime is increasingly merging into the area of violent and physical crime.