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McAfee Arrested in Spain, DOJ Indictment for Tax Evasion Using Cryptocurrencies
- hcir614 6y agoI hope the sentence is that he is forced to follow through on eating his d!#k
- imglorp 6y agoBackground: (Maybe nsfw for language) http://www.dickening.com http://www.dickening.com
- Scoundreller 6y agoHe’ll say he would have but national TV isn’t allowed to film in prison. I think he still has 85 days or something.
- Simulacra 6y agoSo he hid money from taxes. Shameful, but not unexpected with his libertarian streak.
- bArray 6y agoI'm not sure political sway has ever affected a persons motivation to hide taxes!
- aksss 6y agoState senator Terry Link a couple weeks ago: https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2020/09/16/former-democratic-state-sen-link-pleads-guilty-to-tax-evasion/ https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2020/09/16/former-democratic...
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoThat's actually an interesting question I don't think I've ever seen any real data on. Anecdotally, I find libertarians and Republicans to be far more likely to subscribe to anti-tax rhetoric than Democrats, but I don't know if that translates to any meaningful action in practice beyond the fringes. ...although in this specific case, McAfee is, well, kind of a fringe unto himself.
- bArray 6y ago> That's actually an interesting question I don't think I've > ever seen any real data on. For sure, not exactly the sort of study you can get people to sign up to. Are you measuring how successfully they hide their taxes or how prevalent it is in that political sphere? > Anecdotally, I find libertarians and Republicans to be far > more likely to subscribe to anti-tax rhetoric than > Democrats, but I don't know if that translates to any > meaningful action in practice beyond the fringes. I would guess that you might be a Democrat voter then? The reason I ask is because you might vote for them because they seem trustworthy, or they seem trustworthy because you vote for them.
- pvg 6y agoHere's an illustrative case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes#Income_tax_conviction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes#Income_tax_convi...
- pvaldes 6y agoThis was an interesting week for sure. After republicans being unable to detach themselves from white supremacists, I assume that any republican jew, latino, asian or black, feeling a minimum of respect by themselves, wouldn't want to touch the party with a ten-foot pole at this moment. But many of they would not vote democrats either, so could be a sort of republican exodus in search of a party at this moment. It seems that the most popular alternative options are the Libertarian Jo Jorgensen or the Green Howie Hawkins. This is the first time that I see the Libertarian party mentioned in all those months, and it seems that McAfee identifying as libertarian is having consequences for him, -just right now-, and his money was blocked. That is really interesting if we think about it. Ironically, the most valuable contribution to Donald Trump to US democracy could be to allow a third party (or more independent actors) to put a foot in the door. Something that clearly would benefit the system, and an once-in-life opportunity.
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- anm89 6y agoWow, I guess my whole Jewish republican family has lost their right to be considered self respecting jews! It's amazing how frequently the attempt to hurl the white supremacy card, is actually patronizing, condescending, and racist in itself.
- lacrimacida 6y agoI guess so too. Any self respecting jew distances themselves from things that have harmed them in the past. But they don’t have to, and they don’t have to be self respecting either. It’s a choice after all.
- olalonde 6y agoFor context, he was vocal about not filing taxes and basically taunted the IRS to go after him: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-shill-john-mcafee-haven-091207539.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-shill-john-mcafee-have...
- 02020202 6y agoDon't you love when the worlwide terrorists go to foreign sovereign nations to make arrests? Rememebr Kim dotcom? Same crap.
- chickenpotpie 6y agoAre you against extradition? You want people to be able to commit crimes and as long as they get out of the country they’re untouchable?
- ColanR 6y agoThere should always be somewhere to go, just in case you're being prosecuted unjustly. Snowden is a great example. Assange is another.
- bawolff 6y agoMany countries refuse to extradite for "political" crimes. I'm in favour of extradition provided due process is respected, no cruel or unusual punishments are involved, and the crime is a crime in both juridsictions (and not political).
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- chickenpotpie 6y agoYeah but there's a difference between seeking asylum and not feeling like paying taxes.
- johnisgood 6y agoSeeking asylum for the repercussions of not paying taxes.
- ColanR 6y agoExcept that per your comment above, we're talking about the broader subject of "commiting crimes", not paying taxes.
- ffggvv 6y agowhy didn’t he just renounce citizenship. he hasn’t been to america in a long time has he
- leetcrew 6y agorenouncing US citizenship is a taxable event itself if you have a net worth greater than $2mm. IIRC, you have to pay what the capital gains would be on all your assets if you sold them that day. you also have to settle any other unpaid obligations. if john mcafee already doesn't feel obligated to pay taxes, I don't see why he would go through a formality that just triggers another tax obligation.
- plugger 6y agoEven if you don't have a high net worth it triggers a 5 year tax audit and fees. My mate just handed in his passport even though he's been doing his W2's annually and he still had to pay $2k to renounce.
- EGreg 6y agoThen why did Facebook’s cofounder do it to save $600M? https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmitchell/2012/05/11/facebook-billionaire-gives-up-citizenship-to-escape-bad-american-tax-policy/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmitchell/2012/05/11/faceb...
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- vmception 6y agoSEC hit him with civil charges too, btw those are dispelled by simply having a disclaimer, or another paragraph in a disclaimer so it hard to the position of the SEC and the character assassination in these charges seriously. You can have the same tweets that also says *sponsored with 50,000 tokens and cash and speculators wont care and you are magically legal.
- ozten 6y ago"Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee" is an eye opening view into his world and the history of the McAfee corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_John_McAfee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo:_The_Dangerous_Life_of_...
- newguy1234 6y agoHeard many of the accusations made in this film are fabricated. For example, I heard that the film makers paid some of the women in the film to say stuff that MacAfee never engaged in. So I would watch this documentary with a skeptical mind but it is an entertaining documentary none the less, just don't take it 100% serious.
- bobwall 6y agoWas the part where they said he probably paid to have his neighbor murdered true? Because that was not a very good look for him.
- bobbiechen 6y agoThis reminds me of the amazing sentence: >John McAfee has never been convicted of rape and murder, but—crucially—not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder. https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-riche/ https://breakermag.com/trapped-at-sea-with-cryptos-nouveau-r...
- keeganpoppen 6y agogreat line; whole piece was pretty good too; good enough for me to keep reading after ctrl-f for the line haha
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- ProjectBarks 6y agoCan you please provide a citation?
- bitlevel 6y agoNot according to Mrs McAfee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theemrsmcafee/status/1313238348438401024 https://twitter.com/theemrsmcafee/status/1313238348438401024
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- gruez 6y agoThis would be much more convincing if the photo was timestamped (eg. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthenticationByNewspaper https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthenticationBy...)
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- gamblor956 6y agoToday's announcement was merely that he was indicted back in June and the indictment is now unsealed. He was arrested in June and presumably may be out on bail in Spain while the extradition hearing proceeds.
- Scoundreller 6y agoAs far as unsealed indictments go, this one isn’t very entertaining. Barely longer than the press release. There’s gotta be more pages to be released.
- EGreg 6y agoMcAfee has been at this for years. I guess it finally caught up w him. He was in some prison last year. I met with people who work w him btw, he has an interesting group of compatriots https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/john-mcafee-tweets-photos-of-jail-stay/ https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/john-mcafee-tweets-phot...
- 55555 6y ago"work"
- stevespang 6y agoHe is too old to be prosecuted, it's unethical . . .
- ksherlock 6y agoJust last week McAfee (no relation, anymore) filed an S-1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621764 I was thinking the timing was good since the OG JM hadn't been in the news lately...
- oxfeed65261 6y agoDude writes faux Penthouse Forum letters as a hobby, apparently. “We had not left the city more than ten minutes behind us when she began to caress my crotch, eventually freeing my dick from its confinement.” https://loggiaonfire.com/magazine/'the_woman_in_nepal,_chapter_one'_by_john_mcafee_1589057699.html https://loggiaonfire.com/magazine/'the_woman_in_nepal,_chapt...
- howlgarnish 6y agoMcAfee, the marketing nightmare that just keeps on giving. I genuinely don't understand why McAfee the company hasn't changed its name yet. In the meantime, some greatest hits: How to Uninstall McAfee (NSFW-ish) https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg The McAfee guide to bribery in the third world http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/ http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/
- awakeasleep 6y agoMcAfee, like Symantec, has a Compliance driven sales cycle. No one likes the software, few think it's useful, but businesses must buy it due to their regulatory burdens. The name doesn't matter. The marketing doesn't matter. The features don't matter. The performance doesn't matter. Laws and Industry Groups matter.
- tehlike 6y agoThat's true. Compliance - we went with clamav for what we do - it was easy to set up on cloud.
- hamandcheese 6y agoPerhaps there is a market for antivirus software that literally does nothing. - Enterprise ready - runs on premise - Vastly faster than the competition - Huge profit margins due to minimized developer costs
- laurent92 6y agoA bit like http://vanilla-js.com http://vanilla-js.com the Javascript framework of 0 bytes (25 bytes compressed), but that antivirus would have the upside of having exactly 0 added risk, which distinguishes it from the rest of its industry.
- mtzet 6y agoCompliance to what? I’m genuinely curious about who would mandate antivirus.
- arcticbull 6y agoMan, this is gonna put a damper on his presidential campaign. [1] [1] https://www.newsweek.com/john-mcafee-running-president-and-away-government-1303869 https://www.newsweek.com/john-mcafee-running-president-and-a...
- pmiller2 6y agoDoubtful. Have you seen the current President?
- meddlepal 6y agoMr. Most Interesting Man in the World. The IRS is a fun entity to have to fight off... good luck with that.
- MrXOR 6y agoSo now who will be the next U.S. president?
- Thorrez 6y agoI think (not sure) that the McAfee signs on this building[1] were removed in the last week or so. I wonder if that's related to this Indictment. Would McAfee the company have gotten an early warning to give them time to remove their sign? [1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/McAfee/@37.3898838,-121.9750981,150a,35y,261.75h,68.85t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x808fc9e82a9104e5:0x41bad7dc044b7cbd!8m2!3d37.3894199!4d-121.9793062 https://www.google.com/maps/place/McAfee/@37.3898838,-121.97...