Cyberscoop reports last week that big tech man John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish jail awaiting extradition back to Tenessee where he faced charges which could have put him in prison for 30 years.
According to the article, all leads point to “death by suicide.”
Security Now! covered this from time to time in their program, and I knew my twitter covered this through Cyberscoop so I sent it over to Steve himself.
McAfee faced up to 30 years in prison if he was convicted of evading taxes in the U.S. Prosecutors in Tennessee charged McAfee with failing to report income from cryptocurrency promotions, speaking engagements and selling the rights to his life story to a filmmaker.
The Spanish court’s ruling was made public on Wednesday, and could be appealed.
Again, this article was written I believe on the 22nd and I saw this over this past weekend. Its unfortunate that this occurred, and as someone said yesterday, when you’re famous, all kinds of things happen.
For complete coverage, I now give you the Cyberscoop article: John McAfee found dead after Spanish court approved extradition to US.
Out of respect, this will be the last article posted today. While I’m still getting news notes together, this will be the top story until tomorrow. Thanks for reading, and make it a great day folks.
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