{"id":667830,"date":"2026-10-07T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=853845"},"modified":"2026-10-07T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:45:12","slug":"so-called-crypto-godfather-gets-78-months-as-37m-meta-fraud-unravels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/so-called-crypto-godfather-gets-78-months-as-37m-meta-fraud-unravels\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Crypto \u2018Godfather\u2019 Gets 78 Months as $37M Meta Fraud Unravels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/so-called-crypto-godfather-gets-78-months-as-37m-meta-fraud-unravels-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Adam Iza called himself \u201cThe Godfather\u201d and used money from a roughly $37 million Meta advertising fraud to hire off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff\u2019s deputies. Five former deputies have since been convicted. On Oct. 5, a federal judge sentenced Iza to 78 months and ordered $23.4 million in restitution. The prison term runs alongside a [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Iza called himself \u201cThe Godfather\u201d and used money from a roughly $37 million Meta advertising fraud to hire off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff\u2019s deputies. Five former deputies have since been convicted. On Oct. 5, a federal judge sentenced Iza to 78 months and ordered $23.4 million in restitution. The prison term runs alongside a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-667830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}