McAfee also faces civil charges (via The Verge) filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which goes into more detail about the specifics of the charges against him. 
The filing stated that McAfee and Watson were "strategically selected digital assets that would be suitable for a pump-and-dump scheme," including Verge, Reddcoin, and Dogecoin, and then detailed the steps McAfee was taking to raise their prices before sellingselling, it also noted several instances where McAfee denied he had any holdings in the cryptocurrency he was promoting, or claimed that his recommendation was for long-term investments.