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1. www.nytimes.com › billy-mcfarland-releaseBilly McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move

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   Sep 10, 2022 · Five years after the Fyre Festival, the convicted fraudster is planning a comeback. Billy McFarland, who now lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. He spent close to four years ...

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Billy_McFarlandBilly McFarland - Wikipedia

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   Billy McFarland. 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] Vanity Fair describes him as "the poster boy for millennial scamming".

   • Title: Founder and CEO of Fyre Media
   • Education: Bucknell University (No degree)

   • Born: 1991 (age 31–32), Massachusetts, U.S.
   • Known for: Fyre Festival

4. www.npr.org › 2023/08/24 › 1195569809Is Fyre Festival II Billy McFarland's chance to pay ... - NPR

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   Aug 24, 2023 · Mark Lennihan/AP. 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 ...

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   Who is Billy McFarland?

   • Five years after the Fyre Festival, the convicted fraudster is planning a comeback. 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 Festival. Ben Sklar for The New York Times “Is this technically Dumbo?”

   Billy McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move

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   Did Billy McFarland plead guilty to wire fraud?

   • "Fyre Festival lawsuits advance on dual civil, criminal tracks". Variety. Retrieved July 29, 2017. ^ Gaca, Anna (October 3, 2017). "Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland pleads not guilty to wire fraud". Spin. Retrieved July 25, 2018.

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   Did Billy McFarland go to prison for Fyre Fest?

   • Billy McFarland went to prison for Fyre Fest. Are his plans for a reboot legal? Billy McFarland, pictured in 2018, said he's relaunching the infamous Fyre Festival in response to "interest and demand" in his ability "to bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen."

   Is Fyre Festival II Billy McFarland's chance to pay back his victims

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   Why did Billy McFarland & Ja Rule Sue Fyre Festival organizers?

   • On May 1, 2017, Fyre Festival organizers Billy McFarland and Ja Rule were sued for $100 million in a class-action lawsuit in relation to the failed Fyre Festival that left attendees stranded on the island of Great Exuma without basic provisions.

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6. www.usatoday.com › story › entertainmentBilly McFarland released: Fyre Festival fraudster out of ...

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   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 ...

7. www.nbcnews.com › news › us-newsFyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland sentenced to 6 years ...

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   Oct 11, 2018 · Billy McFarland, the promoter of the failed Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, leaves federal court after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges on March 6, 2018, in New York. Mark Lennihan / AP file Print

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9. www.npr.org › 2018/10/11 › 656480640Fyre Festival Co-Founder Billy McFarland Sentenced To 6 ... - NPR

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   Oct 11, 2018 · Brendan McDermid/Reuters. 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 ...

10. www.cbsnews.com › news › billy-mcfarland-sentencedFyre Festival founder sentenced to 6 years in prison, judge ...

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    Oct 12, 2018 · Billy McFarland admitted to defrauding investors of $26 million in the 2017 Fyre Festival and over $100,000 in a fraudulent ticket-selling scheme ... "Mr. McFarland is a fraudster and not simply a ...