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Antivirus pioneer John McAfee, 75, is charged with money laundering and fraud for 'using Twitter to promote cryptocurrencies that he was secretly invested in to inflate their value then sell them for a profit'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hn-McAfee-charged-money-laundering-fraud.html
- McAfee, 75, is still in Spain where he was arrested in October last year at the request of US tax authorities
- Now, he has been hit with 7 counts of fraud and money laundering by the DoJ
- They say he was involved in two cryptocurrency schemes between 2017 and 2018
- He is accused of using Twitter to tout cryptocurrencies he was secretly invested in to drive up their value
- The complaint does not name any of the currencies - McAfee tweeted about at least three
- On one occasion, he gave a disclaimer that he was invested in one of them
- He tweeted right before the currencies spiked in value and allegedly sold at the peak
- Prosecutors say his team then tried to liquidate the crypto on the stock exchange and were turned down
WTF. They just making up crimes now?
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