{"id":30238,"date":"2020-10-17T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30238"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:17:42","slug":"john-mcafee-in-prison-tweets-that-he-is-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/john-mcafee-in-prison-tweets-that-he-is-content\/","title":{"rendered":"John McAfee, in Prison, Tweets That He Is Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur John McAfee posted the first tweets from a Spanish prison, where he is held after <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-john-mcafee-he-has-been-arrested\">arrest<\/a> on the request of US authorities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am content in here. I have friends.<\/p>\n<p>The food is good. All is well.<\/p>\n<p>Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1316801215083225096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am content here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Awaiting extradition, McAfee warned followers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cKnow that if I hang myself, like Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Financier and multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 in prison, awaiting trial on charges of trafficking minors for sexual services. He was discovered in a cell with fatal neck injuries; death was ruled a suicide. The circumstances spawned many theories about possible murder of the billionaire who knew many influential people. As a result the phrase \u201cEpstein didn\u2019t kill himself\u201d became a meme representing a conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<p>In his first prison tweet, McAfee admitted that he misses only one thing in prison:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cShe was my inspiration, my muse, my friend, my confidante and my lover. She inspires and supports me. But more than anything in the world she is the reason for my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I miss only one thing in prison,<\/p>\n<p>My wife <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theemrsmcafee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theemrsmcafee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She has been my inspiration, my muse, my friend, my confidante and my lover.<\/p>\n<p>She encourages and supports me.<\/p>\n<p>But more than anything, she is my reason for living.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1316740725707505667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer McAfee said the day before that John had limited access to Twitter from prison:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t ask me how. Just figure out the puzzle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-john-mcafee-he-has-been-arrested\">filed<\/a> a lawsuit against McAfee for promoting ICO projects on Twitter, and the U.S. Department of Justice has brought charges of tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC asserts that the entrepreneur earned more than $23.1 million from promoting token sales, misleading investors.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier McAfee said he would not promote ICOs, acknowledging that such activity could lead to arrest for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the life of one of the most bright and controversial figures in the Bitcoin industry in ForkLog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"neIaNrKhDH\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tax-evasion-ico-advertising-and-belize-flight-the-extraordinary-life-of-john-mcafee\">Tax evasion, ICO advertising and flight from Belize: the unusual life of John McAfee<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00ab\u041e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437 \u043e\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u043b\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0432, \u0440\u0435\u043a\u043b\u0430\u043c\u0430 ICO \u0438 \u0431\u0435\u0433\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0438\u0437 \u0411\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0430: \u043d\u0435\u043e\u0431\u044b\u0447\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0436\u0438\u0437\u043d\u044c \u0414\u0436\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u041c\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0444\u0438\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/otkaz-ot-nalogov-reklama-ico-i-begstvo-iz-beliza-neobychnaya-zhizn-dzhona-makafi\/embed#?secret=quJqDVg8Ow#?secret=neIaNrKhDH\" data-secret=\"neIaNrKhDH\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur John McAfee posted the first tweets from a Spanish prison, where he is held after arrest on the US authorities&#8217; request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[944],"class_list":["post-30238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-john-mcafee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30240,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30238\/revisions\/30240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}