Billy McFarland, the founder of last year’s failed Fyre Festival music event, was sentenced to six years in prison today for multiple counts of fraud, according to multiple reports from US media agencies.
READ: This thread gives a detailed recount of how the Fyre Festival in Bahamas became a disaster
McFarland sentencing took place at the federal court in Manhattan, where the presiding judge, Naomi Reice Buchwald described him as a ‘serial fraudster.
The 26-year-old pled guilty to wire fraud charges in March, admitting to defrauding investors of $26m in the failed 2017 music festival and over $100,000 in a fraudulent ticket-selling scheme after his arrest in the festival scam.
To help publicize the festival, the convicted promoter hired social media influencers like Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and other models who promoted the festival as an ultra-luxurious event on the Bahamian island of Exuma over two weekends in April and May of 2017. With that,…
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