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A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites

Crypto scams cost Americans more than $11 billion last year. A Brooklyn prosecutor found a way to hit the networks behind them.

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