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McAfee Part 5: The Descent

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How to Regulate a Cryptocurrency Market

The SEC charged McAfee and Jimmy Watson with fraudulently promoting cryptocurrencies to McAfee's Twitter followers. Federal prosecutors at the Justice Department came out with similar charges in 2021. After he left McAfee, Jimmy lived abroad. He kept busy doing contract work. In March 2021, he travels to Texas to see family and renew his passport. The FBI had been watching my house and following me. These two SUVs just pulled up really fast, guns in my face, fingers on trigger, you know, yelling at you, get on the ground. I'm only concerned with my mom. And that was it."

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