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John McAfee's CEO COMES CLEAN on Stealing MILLIONS & His PASSING
Fri, 22 Nov 2024
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Chapter 1: Who was John McAfee and what was his relationship with Jimmy Watson?
I was the CEO of John McAfee's company. We were doing massive trades, millions and millions of dollars. We were transferred to my account to his trust fund, which is considered money laundering, wire fraud. I found out that it's the FBI tracking me every single move. I immediately buy a one-way ticket to Bali. What do you think happened with him? There's no freaking way.
Chapter 2: What led Jimmy Watson to become CEO of McAfee's company?
So I was born in West Texas in a little bitty town called Milshoe in between a feedlot and a dairy. Didn't have much going for me intellectually, physically, physicality-wise. And the reason why I say that is because... I had this heart to serve my country, you know, and join the military, even from a really young age in West Texas.
So my parents ended up pulling me out of school because I was just such a A bad kid. And I think if I was part of a larger school, other than like 17 high school students and seven of them being pregnant, I think it would have been all right. But me being so wild, questioning everything. I was always questioning everything. Had a little bit of ADHD going on.
And so my parents eventually just took me out of school. How old were you? I was 14 years old. Okay. Yeah.
yeah and um well you say you weren't like physically you weren't a What do you mean? You were like a physical guy? You weren't like in good – I don't understand. No, I was like super scrawny.
It's been a long time. It's been a freaking – You got over it. I got over it. It took a while. It took a while. But I was always overcompensating in my life because I wasn't picking up what the other kids were picking up and what the teachers were putting down. And so I was unathletic. I remember my parents literally begging the high school coach –
to play me on the C string football team, you know, and the coach literally told him, ma'am, I would get fired if I played Jimmy. So little Jimmy's athletics, you know, in sports was over from that day forward. But I loved playing guns outside and I loved like digging holes outside and,
But I had such a long journey to go because my dream was to become a SEAL or a Green Beret, something like that, you know?
Well, I mean, so, okay, so when your parents pulled you out of school, did you get a GED or what happened?
So believe it or not, my mom tricked me into going to this place called Texas Bible Institute, and it was for troubled older guys, not even teens. And here I am like 13, 14 years old, and she didn't do what Forrest Gump's mom did in the movie, but she talked the dean into letting me go to this institute.
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Chapter 3: How did Jimmy Watson's military background influence his career?
I tested myself for the SEAL standards test, and I just failed miserably. I remember I stopped halfway in the run. I was heaving, my side hurt. I was just like, why? Why am I so inadequate? I had all these inadequacies, and I was overcompensating for everything. And so I was like, well, who will take me, right? And so I knew the Marines might take me. So I went in the Marine recruiter office.
I ditched the SEAL program. I was like, I can't do this, and it'll have to be for a later day. And I went in the Marine Corps office, and they were like, well, you're 16 years old. You've got to wait until you're 17 at least. With your parents' signature, you got the GED, but you need 17 or 18 credits in college. And I was like, no.
And, of course, my dad, being the graceful guy he was, he was an ex-Texas judge and preacher. And he was like, well, I got an idea. Go to community college. Take, like, one-credit courses, like 15 or 16 courses. courses like bowling, pottery, you know, all this stuff, get one credit, get build up like 15, 16, 17 credits.
And then and so I got all that, got the parents to sign me in and off to Marine Corps boot camp. I went and I was the youngest guy at my boot camp.
Yeah. So you can take like working out would be like one or two credits at the community college. Lifeguard. Yeah. You know, water aerobics. Yeah. Photography is like a three credit, four credit card. You know, that's just taking photos. Bowling. All of it. Yeah. Yeah, because they're not saying you have to get your AA. No. You just have to get some credits. That's right.
So where do you go for Marines? Like you don't go to the normal. Is that Parris Island?
So there's Parris Island, and then there's Marine Corps Recruit Depot. They call that the Hollywood Marines. I was always West Coast. I guess because the area I was in Texas. I'm not sure if all of Texas goes to MCRD West Coast, but I know my part did. And so I go to MCRD. I'm the youngest guy there. And from there, I go to School of Infantry.
From there, I go to Camp with 1st Marines, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines. And then I do two deployments with 1st Marines. Did you like it? I mean, you must have liked it. You know, I knew it was going to be hard, and I watched the Full Metal Jacket movies and stuff, but I didn't know it was going to be that hard combined with the living conditions.
I always said after becoming a SEAL and even in Blackwater stuff, I always look back at the Marine Corps being a very – It's hardcore time. I mean, for a young man, even from my background of cleaning 100 toilets a day.
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Chapter 4: What were the challenges in working with John McAfee?
Like in Yazoo, they don't even want you looking in the window of the TV room. But in Coleman, they would try and keep the guys out. But every once in a while, they would come in and stand there and watch 20 minutes of TV, and then they'd leave or – It wasn't a big, big, huge deal. In Yazoo, if you're a side offender, you're probably not walking the rec yard.
If you do, you better go with five or six other side offenders. In Coleman, these guys have... They call them chomos. They have cho bands. They have cho soccer teams. They have cho... There's so many of them. You can't keep them there. In the medium, they never leave... they had a special unit for them, and they never left the unit. They never went on the rec yard.
And when they did leave, they went to chow. They ate last. They let them out last. So after everybody's gone, they go into the line. They go through the whole line, get their food, eat real quick, go right back in the unit.
Dang. Because they could be stabbed, yeah.
Yeah, they could get hurt. Nobody's necessarily telling them to do that, but every once in a while, one guy will wander onto the yard, and he gets the living shit kicked out of him. And it's like...
God, man, he just wanders out there.
They don't know any better. They're like, well, why can't I go? Nobody knows I'm a sex offender. I just got here. It's like, yeah, bro, they already know. They already know. The guards might even tell them.
That's what I got from my little bitty time there when I was sitting in the cell. The guy was like, dude, they know everything about you. The guards are passing off your paperwork. I was like, dang, this is a complex system, and they research you out.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What controversies surrounded McAfee's cryptocurrency dealings?
Chapter 6: How did McAfee's paranoia affect his business operations?
That's what I got from my little bitty time there when I was sitting in the cell. The guy was like, dude, they know everything about you. The guards are passing off your paperwork. I was like, dang, this is a complex system, and they research you out.
Yeah.
You know?
So what happened when you – I mean eventually you go – what really gets down to it?
Like you've got to – So they want to transfer me to upstate New York, the New York division. Is that what you were indicted out of? Yeah. I was indicted out of New York. So – So I got to go stand in front of a Texas judge at Raymond to fight my case to stay or leave. And my lawyer's like, I don't know, Jimmy. You've been kind of on the run.
They're probably going to transfer you upstate New York, right? And pending trial, waiting for John McAfee to come. So I'm waiting for John McAfee to get extradited, to lose his extradition case, and come back to the States, and we're going to stand trial together, they said. Well... So I go in front of a Texas judge, and he goes, wait a second. What did y'all say he was? He's a SEAL? Veteran?
Nah. He said, we don't do that this south of Mason-Dixie. I'll never forget. He said, we don't do that this south of Mason-Dixie. And my lawyer's nudging me like, oh, this is good. This is good. And the DOJ is like, oh, my God. This cannot be happening in Texas. He goes, put this boy on house arrest. He said, you ain't going nowhere, are you? I said, no, sir. No, sir, not at all.
He goes, right, okay. He's a $5 million promissory bomb. And he said, you know, restriction, you know, ankle brace. It looked like R2-D2 on my ankle. Man, when they latched that thing on me, my life felt like it was over because I was so free. I traveled all around the world. I was sailing in and around Ibiza, you know, mercenary work here, doing all this crazy stuff, this free bird.
And then they just put this big modern-day chain on me, modern-day fetter. That's all it is, is a big ankle mark. I heard they were getting watches now. But they put this thing on me, super restrictive. I'm having trouble sleeping. I'm like, oh, this is terrible. And I'm just... I'm basically waiting to die because I know I'm going to lose my case. It's like a 98% chance if you fight it.
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Chapter 7: What happened during the fallout between Jimmy Watson and John McAfee?
When he's in the prison cell, he says, like two days beforehand, he says, he tweets or something, that he's like, if I die... He had a tattoo whacked, like, I'm not going to kill myself.
Make sure everyone knows. There's no freaking way he killed himself. You don't think? No, because... I go back to my first reaction. Like when my first reaction to when my lawyer called me, I said, I didn't go, somebody killed him. I just said, no way. No, not John McAfee. The guy was an Irish hard bastard who would never go out like that. Now, could he have been severely like depressed?
You know, he's not on any drugs or anything. Maybe he had voices telling him to. But my point is, is John McAfee was a – what do you call it? A sensationalist? I don't know if that's the right word.
Narcissist.
But he was a narcissist too.
Narcissists almost never killed themselves.
Okay, that's a great point. A narcissist who loved attention from the media. So you find out – the day you find out you're getting extradited from the Spanish to America, you lost your case, but you're getting to move from your cell out – And the media is going to cover you. It's a new place. You don't kill yourself an hour after you find out you're leaving your cell.
Yeah, plus he doesn't know. This is what killed me is that – and I get it. Look, I get being in that situation. I know guys that got – two or three years in prison and just thought their world was over. So I understand when you come from up here and you drop all the way down, you get extremely depressed. But the problem is that he had high-priced lawyers. He had the ability to fight his case.
I would have thought that he would have come back, fought his case. If he was in the cards, then he would have at least waited until he got sentenced to And honestly, you know, the case is questionable. They may have offered him some kind of a deal.
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Chapter 8: What lessons did Jimmy Watson learn from his time with John McAfee?
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So if anybody wants to come in and have that life-changing spiritual experience, break bad habits, wake up with a spirit of excellence, I do two calls a week with all the men there, and we've got an awesome networking, awesome resources.
And guys, with guys that come in there, sometimes they're millionaires, sometimes they just got out of prison, we don't judge, and they come in there, and I've got all my My mindset course is in there, all my workouts, my frogman warrior workouts. But the meat and potatoes, the most exciting thing I do is those two calls with the group of guys a week.
What are the people that are coming to you? Is this for like business or is this people that are struggling?
Yeah, it's people who want to up their game. It's people who want to make more money. Well, it's people who – it's men who want to completely radically do that. I call it flip that switch in their mind to go from like –
like slave, servant, always succumbing to all their fleshly desires, addicted, alcoholism to mighty warriors, to more than conquerors, through the power of God, waking up every day knowing and understanding. It's all a mindset shift. understanding that you have a bright future, and here are the tools. Here's the way to go about it. Here's the way out of this situation.
And to lead them out of that storm, just like that lighthouse mission. My whole mission is to bring guys – back in to reignite that fire purpose in their life, to give them a new beginning, right? The whole purpose of the lighthouse is not to give them the lighthouse, is to get them past the lighthouse to the harbors so they can actually experience a whole new world. And that's extremely possible.
And we've had many guys, many guys, a part of the Touchpoint Nation now have life changing results, especially when it comes to their family and spouses.
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