Billy McFarland, who defrauded music festival lovers of $26 million with his failed Fyre Festival in 2017, is out of jail and is already planning Fyre Festival 2.0.
From Breitbart News:
McFarland, the promoter of the Fyre Festival, pleaded guilty in 2018 after the festival fell apart. Promoters sold the festival as a “luxury” music festival in the Bahamas, but critics said it was nothing but a “get-rich-quick scam” from the beginning.
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But despite all that, in a video posted to YouTube, McFarland now claims that he is planning yet another music festival.
According to McFarland, the first batch of tickets has sold out (at $499 a pop!).
“This is a big day. It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during a seven-month stint in solitary confinement,” McFarland says in the video.
Watch McFarland’s message below:
(Comments are disabled on McFarland's YouTube video) https://t.co/dlyQ6ilvSY
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