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.
McFarland, 31, was convicted of wire fraud and other crimes, went to jail for four years, and was let out in 2022.
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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