F or a private detective working in Los Angeles, most investigations tend to follow a predictable pattern. You get a divorce case, or a custody case, and from the time the client pays the retainer, you know what the job will entail. You’ll follow a guy around taking pictures from hotel parking lots, or outside of a club on Sunset, trying to prove he’s having an affair. Or maybe it’s a workers’ comp case. Same thing: You tail a guy, take pictures, prove he’s not really hurt.

But the Adam Iza case, it was different from the start.

Iza was a computer wiz who’d made millions off crypto . He had called Paramount Investigative Services in November 2021 with what seemed like a straightforward job: He was hoping to recover a stolen laptop with $300 million in crypto on it, and had a good ide

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