![]() ![]() That year, he left the US to avoid trial, largely living on a megayacht with his wife, four large dogs, two security guards and seven staff. He said in 2019 that he had not paid US income taxes for eight years for ideological reasons. ![]() He sold his software company to Intel in 2011 and no longer had any involvement in the business. ![]() He took the company public in 1992 and left two years later following accusations he had hyped the arrival of a virus known as Michelangelo, which turned out to be a dud, to scare computer users into buying his company's products. The former Lockheed systems consultant started McAfee Associates in 1989, initially distributing antivirus software as "shareware" on internet bulletin boards. Mr McAfee was one of Silicon Valley's first entrepreneurs to amass a fortune by building a business off the internet. ( Reuters: Mike Blake) One of Silicon Valley's first software tycoons John McAfee initially made his fortune founding the eponymous computer security software company. The Spanish prosecutor, Carlos Bautista, dismissed the accusation of political motivation, saying the Libertarian Party rarely gained more than 1 per cent of votes in US elections. Mr McAfee had linked the charges filed by the Internal Revenue Service to his failed bid to run as a Libertarian Party candidate in the 2020 US presidential election, a second such attempt. The Catalan justice department statement released on Wednesday said a judicial team was investigating the cause of death. "I am hoping that the Spanish court will see the injustice of this," he said, adding "the United States wants to use me as an example." He said that given his age, he would spend the rest of his life in jail if he were to be convicted in the US.
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