THELOGICALINDIAN - The acknowledged altercate amid the US authorities and John McAfee continues as his accessory Jimmy Watson has entered a appeal The above antivirus tycoons babysitter has pleaded not accusable to the declared cryptocurrency artifice case
McAfee and Watson Jr. Are Accused of Having Built a ‘Pump and Dump’ Scheme
According to court documents, Jimmy Gale Watson Jr. entered his appeal afore the Magistrate Judge Kevin Fox at the Southern District of New York.
Watson Jr., a above fleet seal, was arrested in Texas aboriginal this month, as the authorities accusable him with assorted accuse that accommodate money bed-making and balance fraud. Law administration declared both McAfee and Watson allegedly “raked in added than $13 million” from crypto investors.
The claimed babysitter of McAfee evidently served as an “executive adviser” of the “McAfee Team,” which was the website congenital to action tips targeted to crypto traders, allegedly accustomed by the arguable tech entrepreneur.
The DoJ advertisement published on March 5, 2021, abundant the accuse filed adjoin both individuals:
Moreover, per the U.S. authorities, both McAfee and Watson Jr. allegedly acclimated McAfee’s claimed Twitter to endorse agenda assets to addition their prices afore affairs them and profiting from the “pump and dump” maneuver.
US Govt Is Working on Getting McAfee Extradited From Spain
Currently, McAfee is jailed in Spain, as the Spanish authorities arrested him for abstracted tax artifice charges.
As the above antivirus administrator is awaiting to face acknowledged troubles in North America, the U.S. government is alive on extraditing him, as he allegedly bootless to book tax returns.
If bedevilled in the ambience of such charges, McAfee could absorb over bristles years in prison. Also, the absurd tech personality is additionally adverse acknowledged troubles with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which brought abstracted accuse adjoin him.
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