Billy McFarland, the man behind the doomed Fyre Festival in 2017, was partially made a free man when he was released early from prison and transferred this week to a halfway house in Brooklyn, New York.
The 30-year-old still had another 14 months to serve on his six-year sentence for wire fraud after he duped investors out of 26 million over the disastrous festival that ended up serving pathetic cheese sandwiches to ticket holders while they were effectively stranded in The Bahamas.
One such investor is John Nemeth, who works as a director...
The 30-year-old still had another 14 months to serve on his six-year sentence for wire fraud after he duped investors out of 26 million over the disastrous festival that ended up serving pathetic cheese sandwiches to ticket holders while they were effectively stranded in The Bahamas.
One such investor is John Nemeth, who works as a director...
- 5/22/2022
- by Cheyenne Roundtree
- Rollingstone.com
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