John McAfee’s Lawyer: ‘He Did NOT Commit Suicide’

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John Mcafee's lawyer insists he did not commit suicide

John McAfee’s lawyer has confirmed rumors that the anti-virus software tycoon did not commit suicide in his Spanish prison cell on Wednesday.

Authorities insist that McAfee committed suicide, but his lawyer claims he was in constant contact with the anti-virus software tycoon and that he gave no indication whatsoever that he was suicidal.

About one year ago, when he first landed in jail abroad, McAfee warned his followers that if was found dead in his jail cell it will mean he was murdered:

Now, thanks to all of his repeated warnings to the public about threats to his life, there are questions surrounding his supposed “suicide.” He claimed that the US government wanted “to make an example out of me” in a final plea shortly before he was found dead this week.

Redvoicemedia.com reports: The 75-year-old died at the jail outside Barcelona just hours after a court-approved his extradition to the US where he was wanted for tax evasion and fraud.

Spanish authorities insist that there was no evidence of foul play, but McAfee’s previous tweets that he would never take his own life ‘a la Epstein’ have fuelled conspiracy theories.

‘I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine,’ McAfee tweeted on October 15.

McAfee was collared at Barcelona airport at the request of the US Justice Department on October 3, about to board a flight to Istanbul with a British passport.

During a court hearing last month, McAfee said that he would spend the rest of his life in jail if convicted in America. ‘I am hoping that the Spanish court will see the injustice of this,’ he said, adding ‘the United States wants to use me as an example.’

His lawyer Javier Villalba said McAfee’s death had come as a surprise to his wife and other relatives, adding he would seek to get ‘to the bottom’ of his client’s death.

‘I had constant telephone contacts with him,’ Villalba said. ‘At no point had he shown any special worry or clue that could let us think this could have happened.’

‘This has been like pouring cold water on the family and on his defense team,’ the lawyer said. ‘Nobody expected it, he had not said goodbye.’

The sense of foreboding in McAfee’s tweets and in particular, his obsession with the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein has cast doubts on his apparent suicide.

Epstein was found hanged in his prison cell in Manhattan in August 2019 but many believe he was assassinated to stop him from implicating wealthy elites in a child sex trafficking ring.

McAfee sold his company to Intel for $7.7 billion in 2010.

He was living in a self-imposed exile for years, traveling the globe on his boat in the Caribbean.

He was accused of murdering his neighbor in Belize in 2012.

McAfee denied the murder but had been ordered to pay $25 million by a court in Florida in 2015 which found him ‘liable’ for ex-pat Gregory Viant Faull’s death.

US officials also claimed McAfee earned millions over the last decade and didn’t pay his taxes. They also accused him of fraud by pushing cryptocurrency to his Twitter followers in order to inflate prices and rake in the profits.

Last year, McAfee also claimed that he had “information” that would bring down the US government.

He fled the states back in January 2019, after a Grand Jury indicted him on tax-related charges.

Conspiracy theories are now flying fast and furious surrounding his death – and what his lawyer just said, only makes matters more mysterious.

9 Comments

  1. Wtf would he go to the Caribbean for ? Was he mad? He should have gone to russia and pleaded for refugee status as a victim of CIA subterfuge and propagandas and taken all of his evidence of their corruption with him Course everyone knows they’re corrupt anyway Everyone almost knows everyone everywhere corrupt. It’s the new normal Well its still the sane old same old normal .

    • I fully agree with you, Annonymous; why would McAfee go to the Caribbean? Was he mad? Yes, he should’ve gone to Russia and pleaded for refugee status as a victim of CIA subterfuge and propagandas and taken all of his evidence of their corruption with him. Russian President Vladimir Putin would’ve welcomed him with open arms and offered him citizenship.

    • Spain isn’t “the Caribbean”, and a Florida court finding him responsible for something that happened outside of its jurisdiction, demonstrates how fucked up the US legal system is. No one is safe from US government prosecutors, regardless of where or who they are.

  2. His lawyers is going to be struck with deep depression also. He wont be able to take life anymore soon.

  3. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e2cce976e9047d2a95e4c6e7f1fd9d64fd6e6eac1cab504cb35ddf63a6dd606c.gif

    As least since November 2002, it has been an established and verifiable FACT that there is no Act of Congress creating a specific liability for Federal income taxes imposed by subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code. It was at that time when the Secretary of the Treasury, Paul H. O’Neill, failed to answer a SUBPOENA for all such Act(s) of Congress, and that SUBPOENA went to default, activating estoppel against the Department of the Treasury.

    Making matters much worse, in violation of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Commissioner v. Acker, the IRS attempted to fabricate a specific liability with the Regulation at 26 CFR 1.1-1(b) — thus violating Separation of Powers. Furthermore, that Regulation fabricated a “liability” for federal citizens and resident alien individuals, but neither class of people is even mentioned anywhere at IRC section 1 — the section which that Regulation attempted to implement. A Regulation which does that is NOT valid!

    I may be the only one who now complains about McAfee’s lawyer, nevertheless one of the holdings In re Telfair obligates a criminal defense attorney to “pursue a matter on behalf of a client despite opposition, obstruction or personal inconvenience to the lawyer, and take whatever lawful and ethical measures are required to vindicate a client’s cause or endeavor.” If his lawyer had bothered to do the minimal search for the missing liability statute, he would have therein possessed a powerful defense of the “tax evasion” charges e.g. via MOTION TO DISMISS WITH PREJUDICE. Instead, what we see in these cases are selfish and greedy ATTORNeys who routinely churn criminal cases to pad their wallets and bank accounts.

    • 745 F.Supp.2d 536 (USDC/DNJ 2010)

      In re Application of Tommie H. TELFAIR,
      also known as Hassan Gatling, Petitioner

      [begin quote]

      See RPC-ABA, preamble, parts (2) and (4) (“As a representative of clients, . . .

      a lawyer [must] zealously assert[ ] the client’s position under the rules of the adversary system”;

      “In all professional functions[,] a lawyer should be competent, prompt and diligent”);

      RPC-ABA, D.R. 1.3 (“A lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and

      promptness in representing a client”);

      PPC-ABA, D.R. 1.3, comments 1 and 3

      (“A lawyer should pursue a matter on behalf of a client
      despite opposition, obstruction or personal inconvenience to the lawyer, and
      take whatever lawful and ethical measures are required to vindicate a client’s
      cause or endeavor.

      A lawyer must also act with commitment and dedication to the
      interests of the client and with zeal in advocacy upon the client’s behalf ….

      Perhaps no professional shortcoming is more widely resented than procrastination”).

      [end quote]

  4. Who has custody of the body? What is the claimed method of suicide, another hanging by rolling off the bed? My one hope is that he paid for a staged suicide and is heading off to drink and fish.

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