Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Monday against John David McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, over charges that he evaded taxes and willfully failed to file tax returns. The commission claims McAfee recommended at least seven initial coin offerings to his Twitter followers from at least November 2017 to February 2018 without revealing that he earned more than $23 million to boost them.
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against anti-virus software developer John David McAfee over charges that he evaded taxes and willfully failed to file tax returns. McAfee also engaged in a practice called scalping, in which he accumulated large amounts of digital securities and promoted them on Twitter without disclosing his intention to sell, the SEC said. The charges were announced just hours after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued McAfee for promoting the sale of cryptocurrencies without disclosing that he was being paid to do so. — With assistance by Olga Kharif, Thomas Gualtieri, and Laura Millan Lombrana, Cisco Told to Pay $1.9 Billion in Security-Patent Trial Loss. 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.
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Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis. John McAfee, founder of McAfee Associates Inc. and chief cybersecurity visionary at MGT Capital Investments Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview. The commission sued McAfee Monday, alleging he recommended at least seven initial coin offerings to his Twitter followers from at least November 2017 to February 2018 without revealing that he earned more than $23 million to boost them. The SEC has alleged that from at least November 2017 through February 2018, McAfee recommended cryptocurrencies he was paid to promote, while falsely denying such payments. An indictment returned in June was unsealed on Tuesday after he was taken into custody in Spain, where he is awaiting extradition, according to the department.
McAfee also engaged in a practice called scalping, in which he accumulated large amounts of digital securities and promoted it on Twitter without disclosing his intention to sell it, the SEC said. The SEC is seeking to force McAfee to disgorge all his ill-gotten gains, and to prohibit him from taking part in the issuance, purchase or sale of any digital asset securities and unspecified monetary penalties. A Division of NBCUniversal. The announcement is the latest legal complication for the eccentric software mogul, who was a person of interest in a murder in Belize, though not charged with a crime, and last year was detained in the Dominican Republic for entering the country with a cache of firearms and ammunition. Prosecutors allege that McAfee earned millions of dollars through the promotion of cryptocurrencies, speaking engagements, consulting jobs and the sale of the rights to his life story for a documentary, but never filed tax returns, instead having his income paid into accounts held in other names. McAfee is accused of failing to file US tax returns from 2014 to 2018 and hiding assets including real estate, a vehicle and a yacht in the name of others, prosecutors said. Elusive cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee was arrested in Spain for tax evasion in the U.S., the Justice Department in Washington said. All Rights Reserved.
The U.S. Justice Department announced the charges shortly after the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed it had brought civil charges against McAfee, alleging that he made over $23.1 million in undisclosed compensation from recommending seven cryptocurrency offerings on Twitter that were materially false and misleading.
John McAfee, founder of McAfee Associates Inc. and chief cybersecurity visionary at MGT Capital Investments Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview . The SEC is seeking to force McAfee to disgorge all his ill-gotten gains, and to prohibit him from taking part in the issuance, purchase or sale of any digital asset securities and unspecified monetary penalties. He then went to Roanoke College, where his alcohol abuse originally started.
He’s being held pending extradition, the Justice Department said.
The company filed to go public last month. McAfee didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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McAfee's recommendations were "materially false and misleading," in that he tried to sell "virtually worthless" cryptocurrency tokens by encouraging investors to buy the securities without disclosing his own holdings, the SEC alleged.
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. The SEC is also pursuing charges against Jimmy Gale Watson, Jr., a bodyguard to McAfee, on charges he aided and abetted the sale of the digital currencies, among other allegations.
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The indictment, filed under seal in June, was unsealed following his arrest in Spain where the United States is seeking to extradite him. When a blogger exposed that he was being paid, McAfee was still holding “virtually worthless” securities from the offerings he promoted and encouraged investors to buy them — without revealing that they were his own securities and he had paid a third party to recommend them, according to the complaint. Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved, Cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee arrested for US tax evasion, John McAfee, founder of McAfee Associates Inc. and chief cybersecurity visionary at MGT Capital Investments Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview, Protests over hathras case in Gujarat: ‘non-political’ rally backed by Congress to be held today, Opinion | Since Yogi Adityanath became CM, culture of violence and impunity has taken root in UP, Editorial | With a flurry of FIRs, UP government criminalises protest, takes a vengeful view of its mandate, Facing flak, Yogi Adityanath cites CAA crackdown, accuses Opp of using Hathras to ‘divide’, Hathras: SC calls it horrible, UP says step in to stop narratives, Journalist, three others detained on way to Hathras, Rescued from kin’s home, 4-yr-old dies; police say was raped, Sedition case: UP Police probe ‘tutoring’ of family by journalist, Hathras victim gave 2 statements, alleged molestation, rape: UP govt to SC, Amit Malviya, Swara Bhasker, Digvijaya Singh get NCW notice for revealing Hathras victim's identity, https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/1x1.png, here to join our channel (@indianexpress), What to expect from Apple's October 13 event, Mi Band 5 review: Upgrades that really matter, How to secure private WhatsApp chats from hackers, 5 PUBG Mobile Lite alternatives on Google Play Store you can try, Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, and other G-Suite services suffer global outage, Realme C12 first look: Good design, decent specs, Redmi 9 Prime first look: Looks more like Poco X2, Here’s our first look at Samsung Note 20 Ultra, Rhea walks out of Byculla jail nearly a month after arrest in drugs case, Held on way to Hathras, Kerala journalist, three others charged under anti-terror law, High review: A web series high on substance, Tovino Thomas hospitalised after accident on Kala set, 'Parents will be parents': Netizens shares photo of supplies sent from home, Authorities take down massive 'Trump' sign that popped up in California, LIVE | IPL 2020: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings, Sunil Gavaskar: 'When will the Aussies learn? The SEC is seeking to impose on McAfee a civil penalty as well as disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, with interest. In 2016, Intel announced that it had signed a deal to transfer a 51% stake in the business to TPG for $1.1 billion.
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