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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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. May 19, 2022 · Billy McFarland, 30, was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Michigan on March 30, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. His lawyer, Jason Russo, said McFarland had...

  9. Oct 11, 2018 · Billy McFarland acknowledged he had betrayed people's trust in him. The founder of the ill-fated Fyre Festival - called a "complete disaster" by fans - has been jailed for six years by a US...

  10. 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 buyers out of more than $26 million.

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