Fri Mar 5, 2021, 06:30 PM

Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee indicted for cryptocurrency fraud - U.S. officials

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John McAfee, the antivirus software pioneer whose former company still bears his name, has been indicted on fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges stemming from two cryptocurrency schemes, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.

Authorities accused McAfee and his bodyguard, Jimmy Gale Watson Jr, of exploiting McAfee's large Twitter following to artificially inflate prices of "altcoins" through a pump-and-dump scheme, and concealing payments McAfee received

from startup businesses to promote initial coin offerings.

McAfee and his accomplices allegedly reaped more than $13 million from the schemes, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed related civil charges concerning the alleged pump-and-dump scheme.

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Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee indicted for cryptocurrency fraud - U.S. officials (Original post)	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Mar 5	OP
Ok why am I laughing? nt	DURHAM D	Mar 5	#1
Isn't this guy also wanted for murder...	Mawspam2	Mar 5	#2
Slight correction, from what I read he is only wanted for questioning about a murder which is not	cstanleytech	Mar 6	#9
That coprophiliac is still in custody in Spain for tax evasion.	Ponietz	Mar 5	#3
This guy is a piece of work.	Marie Marie	Mar 5	#4
Such a creep.	Joinfortmill	Mar 5	#5
Overinflated asset prices precede market crashes	bucolic_frolic	Mar 5	#6
I thought he died...LOL	LeftInTX	Mar 5	#7
Isn't that the guy who vowed to eat his own dick if Bitcoin didn't hit $1 million by 2020?	LudwigPastorius	Mar 5	#8
Didn't he skip the country 20 years ago?	FakeNoose	Mar 6	#10
Not sure when he left the US but he was deported from Guatemala in 2012	csziggy	Mar 6	#11

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 06:33 PM

DURHAM D (30,032 posts)

1. Ok why am I laughing? nt

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 07:12 PM

Mawspam2 (97 posts)

2. Isn't this guy also wanted for murder...

...in Belize? Tax evasion, murder, now crypto-fraud. Where is he now? I think he needs to take a ride on Elon Musk's spaceship to Mars to avoid extradition.

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Sat Mar 6, 2021, 12:22 AM

cstanleytech (22,379 posts)

9. Slight correction, from what I read he is only wanted for questioning about a murder which is not

the same thing as being wanted for the murder itself.

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 07:46 PM

Ponietz (1,887 posts)

3. That coprophiliac is still in custody in Spain for tax evasion.

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 07:58 PM

Marie Marie (9,861 posts)

4. This guy is a piece of work.

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 08:03 PM

Joinfortmill (2,502 posts)

5. Such a creep.

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 10:26 PM

bucolic_frolic (24,053 posts)

6. Overinflated asset prices precede market crashes

pump and dump, Ponzi, real estate prices (check out the Florida crash in the 1920s) ... here we have stocks, bitcoin in bubbles. A reckoning of some kind is coming. Every 2 bit penny stock with a book value of 13 cents and no earnings is making a run ... 3, 4 10 $15 a share. It wasn't only Gamestop.

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 11:12 PM

LeftInTX (15,519 posts)

7. I thought he died...LOL

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Fri Mar 5, 2021, 11:39 PM

LudwigPastorius (3,205 posts)

8. Isn't that the guy who vowed to eat his own dick if Bitcoin didn't hit $1 million by 2020?

Maybe he'll finally get the mental health help he needs when he's in prison.

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Sat Mar 6, 2021, 11:21 AM

FakeNoose (17,866 posts)

10. Didn't he skip the country 20 years ago?

I read he was in Costa Rico or some place, avoiding US government and media.

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Sat Mar 6, 2021, 03:22 PM

csziggy (31,894 posts)

11. Not sure when he left the US but he was deported from Guatemala in 2012

He also had property in Belize where he was considered a person of interest in the murder of Gregory Faull - he "fled" Belize. He illegally returned to Guatemala and was deported to the US.

He's run for President in 2016 and 2020 as a Libertarian(?!).

On October 5, 2020, McAfee was arrested in Spain at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice for tax evasion. The indictment alleges he earned millions of dollars from 2014–18, but has failed to file income tax returns.[110]

On October 6, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint[111] alleging that McAfee had fraudulently promoted certain ICOs. According to the SEC, McAfee presented himself as an impartial investor when he promoted the ICOs, despite the fact that he was allegedly paid $23 million in digital assets in exchange for the promotions.

On March 5, 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced that they had formally indicted McAfee and an executive adviser of his, named Jimmy Gale Watson Jr, for allegedly fraudulently promoting certain ICOs and performing pump and dump schemes.[112]

McAfee is currently incarcerated in Spain, pending extradition to the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Personal_life

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