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The Bro Behind Fyre Festival Faces 20 Years For Wire Fraud
“Let’s just do it and be legends, man,” a marketing exec for the doomed Fyre Festival reportedly said when it became clear the event was going to be a disaster. And now the lead organiser of that legendarily terrible music festival might be a legend in the clink. Billy McFarland has been charged with wire…
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Fyre Festival: A Tech Bro Charged Thousands For An Island Getaway That Turned Into The Hunger Games
The distance between expectation and reality makes fools of us all, but it made the well-heeled attendees of an exclusive music festival in the Bahamas look particularly moronic late last week and into the weekend. For tickets that ranged between US$450 and US$1200, the young and rich signed up for passage to the doomed Fyre…