Update (1530ET): Just after Spain’s National Court approved a request for his extradition back to the US, where he faced the prospect of dying in a jail cell, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported Wednesday evening that John McAfee committed suicide in his cell, dying at the age of 75.
He was being held in a prison in Barcelona. So far, initial evidence of his death, which occurred Wednesday afternoon, local time, points to suicide.
He was initially arrested by Spanish authorities on Oct. 3, 2020 at the El Prat airport, just as he was about to take a plane to Turkey. He was arrested at the behest of the US, where he is wanted for evading millions of dollars in taxes.
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Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee may die in a US prison, after Spain’s National Court approved an extradition request by the United States to face tax-related criminal charges which carry a sentence of up to 30 years if convicted.
The 76-year-old McAfee has been charged by Tennessee prosecutors with evading taxes after failing to report consulting income he received while promoting cryptocurrencies, along with income from speaking engagements and the rights to his life story as a documentary, according to MarketWatch.
Last week, McAfee tweeted “I have nothing. Yet, I regret nothing.”
The charges apply to income received between 2014 and 2018. He was arrested last October at Barcelona’s international airport, after which a judge ruled that he should be held in jail while awaiting the results of his extradition hearing.
Earlier this month, McAfee argued in a videolink hearing that charges against him are politically motivated, and that he would die in prison if he was returned to the US.
As CoinTelegraph notes:
McAfee’s life behind bars appears to be one of contemplation, as he regularly tweets messages with tones that switch between sorrow, acceptance for his circumstances, mixed in with sparks of aggression towards the U.S. governing bodies.
In the June 9 tweet, he notes that “after uncountable lawsuits and the reach of the FED’s I now have nothing. But inside these prison bars I have never felt more free. The things you believe you own, in reality own you.”
It is a stark contrast to McAfee’s earlier years in which his net worth grew to $100 million from his successful anti-virus software firm. McAfee used to own a mansion worth more than $5 million in Colorado Springs, and even lived on a luxury yacht out in Dominican Republic waters, which he dubbed a “freedom boat.”
According to the June 2020 indictment from the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Tennessee prosecutors, McAfee faces a minimum of five years on each count of tax evasion and a one-year minimum on each count of willful failure to file a tax return. –CoinTelegraph
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Why didn’t he just renounce his US citizenship if he didn’t want to pay US taxes?
That can’t be done anymore. The Feds can and have arrested and or seized the property of people who have tried it. Switzerland no longer even takes American clients because of our international aggressiveness regarding taxes.
Boris Johnson had to pay his back taxes before they let him renounce his US citizenship
It used to be that if you worked for a foreign country, conspired against the US and committed treason. you would automatically lose your citizenship.
Now they declare you the “elected” President
RIP. He was quite the character. McAfee didn’t kill himself.
Neither did Epstein.
Did he have a connection to the Clintons? Arkancide?
Course he didn’t
Nothing to see here. Move along now.
If you have been…. er, compliant with US tax law and regs, you can indeed renounce US citizenship.
If your net worth exceeds some inflation-adjusted number (about US$2+ million or so, I think) renunciation requires treating all your assets as if they were sold the day before a prospective renunciation, and paying tax on any such ‘capital gain’. Renunciation for taxpayers with this level of wealth thus requires a degree of financial planning, scheduling an appointment with embassy/consular officials outside the USA, and paying a fee of maybe $3,000. Renunciation can be prohibited by the US government during a war, for what that’s worth.
Personally, if you’re confident of never wanting to return to this particular God-forsaken land, I would dispense with all the formalities… and, of course, thereby be guilty of multiple federal crimes. The feds might even give you a free ride back to The Homeland, inside a canvas sack in the rear of a C-147.
The above is why America is still ‘the Land of the Free’, and is the envy of the world.
Stephanie said “Why didn’t he just renounce his US citizenship if he didn’t want to pay US taxes?
To which you repeated my answer but in book form. You can’t renounce your citizenship to escape the Feds. Are you aware that they arrested the daughter of the president of Huwei corp. two years ago and as far as I know she is still in custody in Canada.
On paper it was Canada who arrested her, a Chicom citizen. Are you aware we forced a plane down in Europe to capture the duly elected President of Ecuador only to discover he was on a different flight. Are you aware the feds arrested Sadam and Gaddafi in their own countries while they were still President and then Executed them.
Now recite the tax code to us again.
I have first hand knowledge of the Swiss thing. We’re all slaves, if you haven’t noticed.
BTW, who the fuck DOWN voted your comment??
According to his 2019 Twitter feed, McAfee said, if he kills himself in prison, it means he was whacked. He even got a tattoo saying that.
(Sorry I haven’t been around lately. I’m working two jobs now.)
That tattoo is probably a coded messsage to somebody. $whackd is a token coin on Etherscan.
https://etherscan.io/token/0xcf8335727b776d190f9d15a54e6b9b9348439eee
You’ve been missed here, VV. Glad to see you back in the saddle again.
I really liked Mr McAfee! There were a few less bombs made because he didn’t pay taxes!
Seems he was a veritable nut job. He wasn’t stupid.
There’s a “deadman switch” somewhere.
I wonder who else in his orbit falls next?
Let’s hope McAfee and Epstein are having a cool drink on some tropical island somewhere right now. Although McAfee didn’t seem like the kind of guy who would hang around a leach like Epstein. Plus, McAfee didn’t have the Mossad protecting him.
“Tennessee prosecutors with evading taxes after failing to report consulting income he received while promoting cryptocurrencies, along with income from speaking engagements and the rights to his life story as a documentary”
WTF – Tennessee does not have state income taxes, therefore no reporting requirements.
Maybe they mean the Tennessee office or district of the IRS.
I thought about that, but why didn’t they say US attorneys in TN?
Attention to detail starts slipping when they know they are writing fiction.
The same prison guards from Epstein? Are all the tapes missing this time too? He committed suicide the same way Abe Lincoln and JFK did, The Establishment, and those who think they have swindled their way to something to lose. Fuck all you parasites.
McAfee was a bit crazy but he was also a genius. He knew too much about too many people.
This was NOT a suicide. The commies in power are eliminating anyone thy can get away with
killing who might pose a risk to their plans. Being a computer expert who knew LOTS of other
experts on cyber security it’s a guarantee McAffee knew a lot about the Dominion Voting
fraud and who was involved.
I think that is a BINGO!
Released to the press? That’ll work.
Don Lemon, for one, is a tiger when it comes to exposing government deceptions.
The man walked his own road. Adios cowboy.
He should never have threatened them. Another in a long list of loose ends cleaned up.
They are so stupid. He said if he suicided, it wouldn’t be a suicide. At his age, making his death look like natural causes would have been more plausible. Hope his message goes to the right people and his death won’t be for naught.
They didn’t even bother taking the pillow off of Scalia. They’re sending a message.
I don’t disagree. I hope McAfee has a strong enough group who can crank a middle finger and move on. Won’t hold my breath.
John,you crazy/autistic/fucking nut!
Rest in peace sir,you have earned it.
Thanks for all the chaos you have caused the powers that want to be,you will be remembered.
And then Hicks died …
In Arkansas, go figure.
The opening is hilarious. I wonder if he is sitting with Carlin.
Fuck all taxation and the US govt.
Hmmmm…..,seems Wednesday rock and roll humpday not happening.
So,will leave a song for John that was going to leave for hump day tuneage.
Tis Stone Blue by the intrepid Foghat,saw this tour and always loved this song and message which was so true with music and rough times.
We in the band covered this,asked guitarist if he could do it and said easy as pie,…..3 months later had the slide down ect.and went over well in bars/parties ect.
So,here we go for humpday!
Stone Blue:Live…..
Eh,trying again better link(I suck at this stuff!)
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Also miss the humpday. So long to the land of milk and honey. It has been replaced. This is from 1988. Still applies. The cogs move slowly.
Leah, awesome song! so what ! saw ministry in the the 90’s. al jourgenson!
Hmmm….,never heard before,is this what tis called “industrial metal”?
Has some power and rage mixed well.
I will say grew up on late 60’s(doors/hendrix/janis) from friends older brothers and sisters and became a 70’s fan with all the bands then,including me favorite Jethro Tull(saw em in 75 with babysitters!),literally over a 100 times thru the decades since then.
So,will leave hunp day with a favorite from a metal band:[youtube
ILuvCO2, another awesome song! Jourgensen is such a character. Seeing Ministry in concert must have been a treat.
Dammit. Does this mean I won’t get any more McAfee software updates??
I thought Epstein bought him out.
It’s still available with updates. Only now it’s called McGatesee, see?
MCAFEE’S DEADMAN SWITCH HAS APPARENTLY BEEN FLIPPED…