{"id":44382,"date":"2021-06-15T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44382"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:45:03","slug":"john-mcafee-says-u-s-charges-against-him-are-politically-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/john-mcafee-says-u-s-charges-against-him-are-politically-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"John McAfee says U.S. charges against him are politically motivated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur John McAfee, while testifying in a Spanish court, said the charges against him were politically motivated. The Associated Press reports this.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee is convinced that if extradited to the United States, he will spend the rest of his life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming days, a Spanish court will decide on extraditing the entrepreneur to U.S. authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/sec-files-suit-against-john-mcafee-he-has-been-arrested\">filed a lawsuit against McAfee for promoting ICO projects<\/a> on Twitter, and the Justice Department brought charges of tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, the entrepreneur was arrested in Spain. He faces <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafee-faces-up-to-100-years-in-prison-on-fraud-and-money-laundering-charges\">up to 100 years in prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafee-says-us-fraud-and-money-laundering-charges-are-overblown\">called<\/a> the charges &#8216;inflated&#8217; and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/john-mcafee-says-the-case-against-him-is-an-attack-by-the-us-on-all-cryptocurrencies\">stated<\/a> that the United States uses him &#8216;as a scapegoat to crack down on all cryptocurrencies&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the history of McAfee Associates, which to this day develops the eponymous antivirus, and his relationship with cryptocurrencies, can be read on ForkLog.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur John McAfee, while testifying in a Spanish court, said the charges against him were politically motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,944,26],"class_list":["post-44382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-john-mcafee","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44382","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=44382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44384,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44382\/revisions\/44384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}