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Financial Daily Dose 10.6.2020 | Top Story: Cybersecurity Pioneer John McAfee Arrested, Accused of Tax Evasion Over Crypto Promotion

The SEC has sued “cybersecurity pioneer John McAfee” for “promoting the sale of cryptocurrencies without disclosing that he was being paid to do so.” McAfee allegedly recommended “at least seven initial coin offerings to his Twitter followers from at least November 2017 to February 2018 without revealing that he earned more than $23 million to boost them.” McAfee was arrested in Spain this week after fleeing Belize in 2012 “ahead of a murder investigation there”....
By: Robins Kaplan LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/financial-daily-dose-10-6-2020-top-26152/

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