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  1. 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]

  2. 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...

  3. Sep 10, 2022 · Billy McFarland, who now lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. He spent close to four years in prison after defrauding investors and duping attendees of the ill-fated Fyre...

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  4. May 19, 2022 · Billy McFarland, who scammed investors and customers in the failed 2017 Fyre Festival, was transferred to a halfway house in New York in March 2022. He is serving the remainder of his sentence and planning to pay restitution to the victims.

  5. Oct 12, 2018 · McFarland was convicted of defrauding investors and customers in the failed 2017 music event in the Bahamas. A judge called him a "serial fraudster" and ordered him to serve six years in prison.

  6. 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...

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  8. 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.

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