Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland sentenced to six years in federal prison
McFarland will serve 6 years for convictions on three counts of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, and one count of lying to investigators.
Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for multiple counts of fraud, including the failed festival in the Bahamas last year where the 26-year-old lured hundreds of ticket-payers to a supposedly exotic event on a private island with luxury accommodations and performances by bands like Blink-182, only to never materialize, The New York Times reports.
“The remorse I feel is crushing,” McFarland said, dressed in a khaki prison jumpsuit, to a packed courtroom that included his friends and family. “I lived every day with the weight of knowing that I literally destroyed the lives of my friends and family.”