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William Zervakos McFarland (born December 11, 1991) is an American businessman whose enterprises have been characterized by fraud. He has served time in prison for financial crimes related to Fyre Festival, having defrauded investors of $27.4 million. [1]
Aug 24, 2023 · The spectacular failure of the Fyre Festival in 2017 revealed widespread fraud by creator Billy McFarland, who ended up in a federal prison for four years after bilking investors and ticket...
Sep 10, 2022 · Mr. McFarland, who in 2018 entered guilty pleas for fraud stemming from his role in organizing the Fyre Festival — a Coachella-for-the-Bahamas affair that went spectacularly awry and...
Oct 11, 2018 · The founder of the ill-fated Fyre Festival - called a "complete disaster" by fans - has been jailed for six years by a US judge. Billy McFarland, 26, pleaded guilty to fraud earlier this year. A...
May 19, 2022 · Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland, the admitted fraudster in the failed festival, has been released from federal prison custody and moved into a halfway house Wednesday, his lawyer says.
Oct 12, 2018 · Billy McFarland, 26, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan. He had admitted to defrauding investors of $26 million in the 2017 Fyre Festival and over $100,000 in a fraudulent...
Oct 11, 2018 · Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland has been sentenced to 6 years on fraud charges relating to his failed April 2017 music festival in the Bahamas.
May 19, 2022 · Billy McFarland, the promoter of the failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, leaves federal court in New York on March 6, 2018, after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges.
Fyre Festival was a fraudulent luxury music festival organized by Billy McFarland, an American businessman whose enterprises have been characterized by fraud, and American rapper Ja Rule. It was created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent.
Oct 11, 2018 · Billy McFarland, a co-founder of the schadenfreude-rich, hospitality-poor debacle known as the Fyre Festival, has been sentenced to six years in prison and three years on probation; he also will...
