Fyre Festival organizer ARRESTED: Promoter of disastrous festival is charged with wire fraud [tr]

Daily Mail ^ | June 30, 2017 | Jenny Stanton

[Enchante]

Fyre Festival organizer ARRESTED: Promoter of disastrous festival is charged with wire fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison over claims he LIED about being worth millions

William McFarland was arrested in New York and charged with wire fraud

The 25-year-old founder of Fyre Festival is expected to appear in court Saturday

Revelers arrived at the Bahamas festival to find a wasteland of half-built tents

[Enchante]

The wreck of a music festival that never happened......

[Enchante]

They had thousands of Millenials flying to the Bahamas with no infrastructure to handle the needs of such a festival. The promoters were total jackasses.

[Enchante]

Well it has definitely been a “life changing” experience for the promoters!

[blueunicorn6]

“A wasteland of half-built tents, rat droppings and feral dogs”

It’s the Democrat convention all over again.

[Enchante]

It seems like the perfect metaphor for the Democrat Party.

[ETL]

Fyre Festival

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(This article is about the 2017 music festival. For the annual literary festival, see The Frye Festival)

Fyre Festival was a music festival scheduled to take place on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma over two weekends in April and May 2017.

Organized by Fyre Media founder Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule as a luxury music festival to promote the Fyre music booking app,[1] the event was promoted on Instagram by “social media influencers” like Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, and other models.[1] The event experienced problems related to security, food, accommodations and artist relations, and was indefinitely postponed after some festival-goers had already arrived.[2]

As a result, the organizers are the subject of eight lawsuits, one seeking more than $100 million in damages. The suits accuse the organizers of defrauding ticket buyers. On June 30, 2017, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York arrested and charged Billy McFarland with one count of wire fraud.[3] ...”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival

[Enchante]

Good summary here, too:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2017/06/29/vanity-fair-fyre-festival-fiasco-due-combo-fraud-incompetence/103291766/

[SaveFerris]

Seems about right.

An idiotic “festival” of garbage. That turned out to be a disaster.

And fools sent in their money......

[GnuThere]

So what about his partner in the venture, “Ja Rule”? Is he squeaky clean?

[Enchante]

Good one, this guy is a scam artist:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-millennial-marketing-fiasco

[Enchante]

Don’t know, I would think he should be charged, too!

[Enchante]

I can’t figure out what #fyrefestival is,” tweeted one, “but it seems like rich people having a bad time, which I fully support.” One woman tweeted: “I’ve always dreamed of building elaborate deathtraps that attract the 1%, but #fyrefestival actually went and did it, kudos.”

[Malcolm Reynolds]

What’s funny is the ‘1% crowd’ that attends this sort of event has the same politics as the angry poster. It’s like a snake devouring its tail.

[SpaceBar]

Rich liberal jet-setters bamboozled by a rich liberal jet-setter impersonator and general flim-flam artist. Poetic in way.

[free-in-nyc]

Every time someone who looks like this gets arrested, an angel gets his wings.

LOL! And speaking of arrests, I like your tag line as well as your post.

[SaveFerris]

Absolutely.

[Boomer]

In that case the FBI really needs to get busy indicting all the bad actors in the old obongo Admin.

Heaven would have a big party with all the new winged angels!

[Enchante]

I just wanted to go to Fyre Festival for the hot models!!

[stockpirate]

I’ll bet the headline shoild read, “left-wing Democrat Hillary supporter arrested.....”