A 34-year-old deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to hindering a federal investigation into a self-proclaimed cryptocurrency mogul known as “The Godfather,” authorities said.
According to officials in the U.S. Attorney’s Los Angeles office, Scott Allen Simpkins, a Brea resident, was assigned to LASD’s Lakewood Station, where he was a member of the department’s Special Enforcement Bureau and SWAT Team while also working for the private security firm Saavedra & Associates, which was owned by a former LASD deputy and federal task force officer, Eric Chase Saavedra.
Saavedra, a 43-year-old Chino resident, hired current LASD deputies and other law enforcement officers to provide private security for his clients, including Adam Iza, 25, who lived between Beverly Hills and Newport Beach…