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Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland arrested, charged with fraud

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrymp...val-has-been?utm_term=.ssGaqn9azD#.sweaYeXa91
Not content to rip off the attendees, he defrauded investors as well:

Billy McFarland was arrested Friday. Federal prosecutors accused McFarland of promising a "'life changing' music festival," when instead he delivered "a disaster."

"McFarland allegedly presented fake documents to induce investors to put over a million dollars into his company and the fiasco called the Fyre Festival," the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement. "Thanks to the investigative efforts of the FBI, McFarland will now have to answer for his crimes."

McFarland was arrested Friday in New York City and was expected to appear before a judge Saturday.

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commedieu

Banned
I don't see how you thought you'd get away with it. I don't understand people that go overboard.

Just steal a little like Trump. Build that up over time.
 

Dead Man

Member
So... attendees get fucked, and *shrug*, investors get fucked and charges? I know there's details I'm ignoring, just seems like it always takes it impacting the corporate entities before it's taken seriously.

Edit: Bah, ignore this post, just cranky and it's cold.
 
Why is that fucking stock price so funny to me holy shit

"well he said he has two million dollars but actually he had about twenty bucks plus some burger king coupons"
 

Falchion

Member
Following the Fyre Festival train wreck has been one of the wildest things this year, bet they're not going to have round 2 in the States now.
 
Chappelle reference aside...
Maybe I'm misremembering this but isn't Ja Rule's involvement the same as Kendall Jenner's?
Wasn't Ja's involvement bigger? He promised there would be pornstar levels of fucking.

Dumb Jenner pulled a Dumb Jenner just like with Pepsi and the t shirt fiasco. IG models will take the cash to promote any crap with no questions asked. (That's gonna bite them in their Instagram Asses soon enough though.)
 
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