Tax fraud isn't hard when you're as wealthy as McAfee. You just employ a tax accountant who values money more than ethics to ensure your funds are in the right accounts and your tax form says the correct things. The IRS doesn't even try to go after large dollar amount fraud anymore (despite the significant return on investment it gives) because they've had their budget cut so severely; the tax enforcement agency literally can't afford to investigate and prosecute anyone but already poor people who can't hire high-powered attorneys to represent them in court.
I mean that tax accountant has a pretty compelling reason to keep McAfee from court. As would any business partner or family member whose wallet is about to get lighter. And the Feds were going after him, so either the money we're talking about is absurdly high, or they were hoping he'd flip state's evidence and someone needed that not to happen.
Weirdly he also said a lot of stuff about Epstein and more stuff going on there so it could be more connections to him really lol
yes so very weird.
Which is weird that they'd then go after McAfee
Yeah, "weird" is a good word here:
Ok, but if there was ever a rich guy who would legitimately off himself in these circumstances, it’s the one known for constantly employing body doubles and doing enough drugs to kill a horse. Also, there’s no world where he would’ve revealed shit and given they wanted him on tax evasion it’s clear they actually wanted him in jail. That’s one of the US easy dunks on rich guys who they don’t wanna have to drag through a real trial, and there’s zero reason they’d do that if they thought he had any leverage at all.
Not really.
Also, it's hardly unknown for people who weren't rich and powerful to commit suicide in prison, they just tend not to make headlines.
