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    John McAfee dead after prison suicide

    Antivirus software tycoon John McAfee apparently hanged himself in a Spanish jail cell on Wednesday — just hours after a court ruled he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US.


    Authorities said a preliminary investigation determined there were no signs of foul play, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.


    The 75-year-old eccentric tech entrepreneur was arrested in October and was awaiting extradition in the Barcelona jail when he was found dead by hanging, police sources told El Pais.


    The newspaper reported McAfee was pulled from his cell in Barcelona and police are investigating the circumstances around his death.

    “Everything points to suicide,” the newspaper reported, citing justice department officials in the country. A second Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, also reported McAfee had died by an apparent suicide in the jail.


    Earlier on Wednesday, the Spanish High Court had agreed to extradite McAfee, who had been charged with a number of federal financial crimes in two districts in the United States.


    McAfee was hit with a 10-count indictment in the Western District of Tennessee in October for allegedly evading taxes on millions of dollars in income.

    He was arrested by authorities in Spain after the indictment was handed down and had been in custody in the country since.


    In the Tennessee case, prosecutors alleged McAfee racked up millions of dollars in income through speaking engagements, selling his personal story for a documentary and doing consulting work.


    He then skipped paying taxes on all of the income from 2014 to 2018, according to the feds.

    He was also charged in a separate indictment in Manhattan federal court in March for a pump-and-dump scheme involving cryptocurrencies that he was touting on social media.


    In that case, McAfee and an accomplice allegedly bilked bitcoin investors out of some $13 million in two schemes, including one where they bought up large quantities of “alt-coin,” then inflated the price of it by publicizing it on Twitter.


    They then sold off the cryptocurrency at the inflated price and made a $2 million profit, prosecutors said.


    McAfee had claimed at an extradition hearing earlier this month that the federal tax evasion charges against him were politically motivated, Reuters reported.


    John McAfee dies by suicide inside prison in Barcelona

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    McAfee and an accomplice allegedly bilked bitcoin investors out of some $13 million in two schemes, including one where they bought up large quantities of “alt-coin,” then inflated the price of it by publicizing it on Twitter.


    They then sold off the cryptocurrency at the inflated price and made a $2 million profit
    #Pray for Eddie

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    RIP John. You will be missed.

    What he was doing anywhere where the US could catch him I will never know. Just like Julian Assange or Victor Bout. When the US wants to make an example out of you , the only safe place for you is Russia. He could have got a asylum in Russia and built a villa for himself in Sochi. But he risked it and paid with his life.

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    One of his last tweets.


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    Oh well, I guess on the brightside he no longer has to eat his own dick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    You will be missed.
    By?


    You?

    He'll be devastated





    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Just like Julian Assange or Victor Bout.
    How can you even use those two names in the same sentence? We all know you have a soft spot for tyrants . . . and now arms dealers.

    No surprise


    McAffee was a man who profited greatly from the tech boom - well done. He was also paranoid - and that feeds into people like you to see conspiracies everywhere

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    Nobody will ever be able to say John McAfee didn’t ride life until the fuckin wheels fell off - Chris Irons

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    I have to say, Socal eulogizing McAfee is probably gonna be the least surprising thing about today.

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    Yeah, not surprised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    I have to say, Socal eulogizing McAfee is probably gonna be the least surprising thing about today.
    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Thread i made about him

    https://teakdoor.com/world-news/1997...ht=John+McAffe (John McAfee Arrested in Spain)

    Yea, Backspit . . . it's like this . . . Ant's comment wasn't a compliment

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post


    RIP John. You will be missed.
    You are wrong as always.
    Taxpayers are the winners.

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    That's a pretty extreme method for uninstalling McAfee.

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    I think that a big stone dropped from heart of many (a weight was lifted)

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Oh well, I guess on the brightside he no longer has to eat his own dick.
    Or shit on prostitutes.

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    Yup, a classy guy . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by spliff View Post
    That's a pretty extreme method for uninstalling McAfee.



    Green owed.

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    RE: An interesting, if not creepy, bio-documentary on McAfee during his escapist period in Belize - Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee [2016]
    Rather revealing to his last days.....as it appears that he went of the deep end.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    it appears that he went of the deep end.
    Just a bit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    as it appears that he went of the deep end.
    or even off

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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbu View Post
    Or shit on prostitutes.
    He preferred the girls to shit on him. Into his mouth through a hole in a hammock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    He preferred the girls to shit on him. Into his mouth through a hole in a hammock.
    Will that's definitely less peverted.

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    Don't knock it til you've tried it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    He preferred the girls to shit on him. Into his mouth through a hole in a hammock.
    Total bs. Girls were interviewed about him and it became a game of one upsmanship between them. So they started saying the crudest shit. Is there any truth to it ? Doubtful. But it makes a good story

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    Here is the truth about what happened in Belize. He moved from one of the coastal islands to the mainland. And the corrupt govt was trying to coerce him into giving a campaign contribution. He told them to fuck right off. And it all went downhill from there.


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