McAfee, who was 75, had just learned that a Spanish court had approved his extradition to the United States to face the above charges.
McAfee, who was 75, had just learned that a Spanish court had approved his extradition to the United States to face the above charges. The SEC in March 2021 charged McAfee and his partner, Jimmy Watson, Jr., with seven additional charges involving a cryptocurrency «pump and dump» scheme. The pair was accused of «promoting investments in initial coin offerings (ICOs) to his Twitter followers without disclosing that he was paid to do so» and «[promoting] multiple ICOs on Twitter, allegedly pretending to be impartial and independent even though he was paid more than $23 million in digital assets for the promotions.
