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Software pioneer and wanted fugitive John McAfee died by suicide in a Spanish prison cell on Wednesday

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after the country's high court authorized his extradition to the United States on charges of tax evasion and fraud.

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That's according to McAfee's lawyer, who said the software mogul died by hanging and could not stand any more time in jail,

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adding, quote, this is the result of a cruel system that had no reason to keep this man in jail for so long.

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Known for his eccentric behavior and bizarre videos, the 75-year-old entrepreneur who sold his McAfee antivirus software company to Intel in 2011

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had been indicted in Tennessee on tax evasion charges.

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He was also charged in a cryptocurrency fraud case in New York.

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McAfee was arrested in Barcelona as he was about to board a flight to Istanbul in October.

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In a tweet posted June 10th, McAfee told his one million Twitter followers, quote,

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there is much sorrow in prison disguised as hostility.

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McAfee, who ran for president of the United States as a libertarian in 2016 and said in 2018 that he had fathered at least 47 children,

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lived in Belize for several years but fled after police sought him for questioning in the 2012 murder of a neighbor.

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McAfee said in 2019 that he had not paid U.S. income taxes for eight years for ideological reasons,

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the same year he left the U.S. to avoid trial, largely living on a mega yacht with his wife Janice,

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who he said he met when she solicited him as a prostitute while he was on the run.

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Janice McAfee said in a Twitter post on Sunday, quote,

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the U.S. authorities are determined to have John die in prison to make an example of him

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for speaking out against the corruption within their government agencies.

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There is no hope of him ever having a fair trial in America.