Billy McFarland , the organizer of the striking clusterfuck that was Fyre Festival , was sentence Thursday tosix years in prisonfor role player . “ Let ’s just do it and be legends , man , ” a marketing executive director for the festivalreportedly saidas the event ’s impendent catastrophe became increasingly evident . His reported divination come straight , man , but not for the resplendency they had apparently hoped for .
A federal judge found 26 - twelvemonth - honest-to-goodness McFarland shamed for sell phony ticket and for mislead investors , theNew York Times reported . McFarlandpleaded guiltyin March to two counts of conducting wire fraud and for two more numeration of fraud in July .
“ McFarland allegedly presented fake document to cause investor to put over a million one dollar bill into his company and the fiasco call the Fyre Festival , ” Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon H. Kimsaid in a statement last yearwhen he harbinger the charges against McFarland .
grant to the New York Times , prosecutors characterized McFarland as “ the consummate sting artist . ” They added :
“ He betrayed and deceived his investors , customer , and employees while he was survive the high life at his lavishness apartment , traveling to single locale , staying at lavishness hotel , being drive around in his Maserati , and entertaining himself and his friend at restaurant , bars , and casinos . ”
McFarland ’s deception reachedjaw - dropping levels of misadventurewhen a clump of rich people showed up to a music fete in the Bahamas only to find themselves ground on the island with non - functioning accommodations and lamentable Malva sylvestris sandwich . The upshot , the disgraced Fyre Festival , cost $ 1,200 a just the ticket — at minimum — and was shill by the likes of models Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski . McFarland and Ja Rule , a co - owner of Fyre Media , sold8,000 tickets .
The Bahamas Ministry of Tourismissued a statementlast year after the debacle , call up it “ total disorganization and chaos , ” adding that “ clearly they did not have the capacitance to execute an event of this scale . ”
[ The New York Times ]
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