{"id":125680,"date":"2019-07-23T20:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125680"},"modified":"2019-07-23T20:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:12:49","slug":"was-candidate-john-mcafee-just-taken-into-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125680","title":{"rendered":"Was Candidate John McAfee just taken into custody?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Following a Series of Tweets, It Appears as Though John McAfee Is in U.S. Custody<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Matt Clibanoff<br \/>\nLaw &amp; Crime<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151484\" src=\"https:\/\/am22.akamaized.net\/lc\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/07\/John-McAfee-Arrested.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0is to be believed, it would seem as though tech millionaire and cryptocurrency diehard,\u00a0<strong>John McAfee<\/strong>, has been taken into U.S. custody. This happens days after he claimed the CIA attempted to \u201ccollect\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee\u2019s recent troubles with the U.S. government all began in January when McAfee announced that he had been charged with using cryptocurrency in criminal acts. In a bizarre video, McAfee claimed that the IRS had put together a grand jury in order to indict him for refusing to pay income tax over the past eight years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The McAfee 2020 Campaign is, as of this day, in exile. I am being charged with using Crypto Cuttencies in  criminal acts against the U. S. Government. More videos coming shortly. Stay tuned. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C75zcbnKTD\">pic.twitter.com\/C75zcbnKTD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1087772979730239490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a result, McAfee got on his yacht, named the Freedom Boat, and sailed into the sunset, or more accurately, Georgetown in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Freedom Boat&#39;s Manifest,<br \/>.<br \/>&#8211; 1 old man<br \/>&#8211; 7 brave soldiers<br \/>&#8211; 1 Italian Captain<br \/>&#8211; 1 Documentarian<br \/>&#8211; 431 lbs. of dog<br \/>&#8211; 1 terrifying Black Woman<br \/>&#8211; enough weapons and ammo<br \/>&#8211; food for 6 months<br \/>&#8211; 1,834 quarts of booze<br \/>&#8211; no drugs<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1088480582802309121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From there the tech mogul continued his stream of absurd tweets\u2013in which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/935900326007328768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E935900326007328768&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.popdust.com%2Fres%2Fcommunity%2Ftwitter_embed%2F%3Fiframe_id%3Dtwitter-embed-935900326007328768%26created_ts%3D1511971000.0%26screen_name%3Dofficialmcafee%26text%3DWhen%2BI%2Bpredicted%2BBitcoin%2Bat%2B%2524500%252C000%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bend%2Bof%2B2020%252C%2Bit%2Bused%2Ba%2Bmodel%2Bthat%2Bpredicted%2B%25245%252C000%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bend%2Bof%2B2017.%25E2%2580%25A6%2Bhttps%253A%252F%252Ft.co%252FFRkYZDjsLh%26id%3D935900326007328768%26name%3DJohn%2BMcAfee\">he claimed<\/a>\u00a0he would \u201ceat his dick\u201d if the value of Bitcoin didn\u2019t reach $500,000 by the end of 2020, said that he\u2019s had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1010682321106821125\">sex with whales<\/a>, and made some of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1051860623699644416\">worst mixed drinks imaginable<\/a>\u2013and continued to run his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mcafee2020hq.com\/\">presidential campaign<\/a>. He also spent a lot of time brandishing assault weapons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mixology 101. Making a Gin Sky. Esoteric knowledge here folks: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XrHpZBNV03\">pic.twitter.com\/XrHpZBNV03<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1051860623699644416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>More recently, however, McAfee tweeted that the CIA had \u201cattempted to collect [him],\u201d announcing that his Twitter would be \u201cdark for the next few days.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1087772979730239490\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"5\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1088480582802309121\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"4\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1088480582802309121\" data-tweet-id=\"1088480582802309121\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1051860623699644416\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"7\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The CIA has attempted to collect us. We are at sea now and will report more soon. I will continue to be dark for the next few days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o79zsbxISl\">pic.twitter.com\/o79zsbxISl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McAfee (@officialmcafee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1152240931015462914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following this, if his tweets from Monday, July 22 were indeed true, McAfee, his wife, and his bodyguards\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialmcafee\/status\/1153298983089037313?s=20\">were trapped at sea for four days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, however, John\u2019s account was taken over by his campaign manager\u00a0<strong>Rob Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Loggia-Ramirez<\/strong>, who said that McAfee and his companions had been detained by U.S. authorities. Law&amp;Crime reached out Loggia-Ramirez for comment and here\u2019s what he said: \u201cPeople won\u2019t believe it, but the information that I posted under John\u2019s account is all that I have. John has a lot of friends all over the world, and we are all working to locate him and secure his release if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-151502\" src=\"https:\/\/am23.akamaized.net\/lc\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-23-at-5.04.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"847\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Photo via Joe Raedle\/Getty Images]<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crazy\/following-a-series-of-tweets-it-appears-as-though-john-mcafee-is-in-cia-custody\/\">Is John McAfee in CIA Custody? | Law &amp; Crime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a Series of Tweets, It Appears as Though John McAfee Is in U.S. Custody<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}