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

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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.

FILE PHOTO: John McAfee, co-founder of McAfee Crypto Team and CEO of Luxcore and founder of McAfee Antivirus, speaks at the Malta Blockchain Summit in St Julian's, Malta November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi

Both also face civil charges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which in October accused McAfee of concealing more than $23.1 million he made from boosting seven cryptocurrency offerings on Twitter. In the cryptocurrency cases, authorities said McAfee touted assets including Verge, Reddcoin and Dogecoin as part of a “Coin of the Day” or “Coin of the Week” tweet from around December 2017 through February 2018.

 

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The giant crypto-bubble will explode once the staged hype is over. It will probably be the beginning of another crisis in the finance sector, which is going crazy over the oversupply of money. It is terrible for the environment anyway and the wealth as unequal as w/ normal money.

Can this dude catch a break?

This guy is the face of destructive hedonism. Every time he’s trending I truly fear for the worst

Looks like he wasn't safe, after all

His antivirus has kept on being secretly installed on my computer under cover of downloads of other programs. For that reason too, I never trusted it. Seems my gut feeling was not far off.

lolololol

Oh my my .....the wall-builder got walled 😡💪✅

Well he got away with murder so this is a small misdemeanor for him.

I'm sorry, but...cryptocurrency - is a fraud!

Just Rich antivirus selling virus to poor..

The crypto boosting just sounds like the nonsense that Musk tweets, but the tax evasion is...bad.

heh

Worst antivirus software. Never use it. Actually it doesn't even protect.

This man should have been in prison a long time ago

Wait the dude that likes scat play?

This guy probably created most of the viruses

Free him

Just market making. Just force him to sit through a FINRA CLE program on conflicts of interest and call it a day.

Reading that it doesn't sound any different than what Elon Musk did by announcing a big buy of crypto. Cause the price to go up then reap the rewards. Not even sure it's illegal (though it should be).

I thought this was Sean Penn...

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