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Po_d Mainiac

(4,183 posts)
6. This makes it more believable
Fri May 4, 2012, 11:01 PM
May 2012

Oddly enough, he claims that the sudden descent of men in uniform has money at its root.

As his rebuttal to the uniforms butting in and ruining his breakfast, he told Channel 5: "It began, innocently enough, with my refusal to donate to the local political boss of the district where I lived in Orange Walk."

Surely he's not suggesting that this raid by at least 30 men in uniform -- in which he was handcuffed and arrested -- wasn't a political shakedown, is he? It seems that he might be.

"I have given at least $2 million in gifts to the police departments in Orange Walk, San Pedro, Belize City, to the village of Carmelita, the City of Orange Walk, " he continued.

I am not sure whether this $2 million might have come from the reported $4 million he had left in 2009. But what is clear is that McAfee is very, very annoyed. He says that it was only the intervention of the American Embassy that got him released.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57428439-71/mcafee-founder-booked-on-drug-weapons-charges-report-says/?tag=mncol;txt

If you do Google Earth, pretty sure his compound is a klik point 5 South of the Orange Walk cane plant

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