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Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2021

Do public records show that John McAfee owned property in the collapsed apartment tower in Miami?

Alexis Tereszcuk, Lead Stories

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Contrary to a social media post, there is no evidence that the late antivirus software inventor John McAfee owned property in the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo high rise north of Miami that collapsed on June 24, 2021.

The post appeared on social media hours after the building located in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, and a day after McAfee was found dead in his prison cell in Spain.

According to a property records search in Dade County, Florida, McAfee is not listed as an owner of any of the 135 units in the building. He is also not publicly connected to any of the LLCs listed as owning property in the building.

In 2019 McAfee tweeted about "31+ terrabytes of incriminating data" that would be released if he were arrested or disappeared but there was no mention of it being in a condo building in Miami.

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