Ex-girlfriend of crypto ‘Godfather’ pleads guilty to $2.6M tax charge

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Iris Ramaya Au, the ex-girlfriend of Adam Iza, known as the crypto “Godfather,” copped to failing to report over $2.6 million she gained from her ex-boyfriend’s crimes.

Iris Ramaya Au, the former girlfriend of admitted crypto fraudster Adam Iza, dubbed “The Godfather,” has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal tax charge.

Au pled guilty to a single count of giving a false tax return “for failing to report more than $2.6 million in ill-gotten gains she obtained via her then-boyfriend’s criminal activities,” the US Justice Department said in a March 5 statement.

Her ex-boyfriend, Iza, pled guilty in January to his involvement in multiple illicit schemes from 2020 to 2024, including fraudulently obtaining Facebook and Meta advertising accounts and credit and selling access to these accounts. 

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