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Ja Rule has broken his silence on his shockingly disastrous music festival, Fyre Festival. The rapper took to Twitter on Friday afternoon to release a statement in response to the uproar over the ...
McFarland pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in federal court in 2018, and admitted to using fake documents to attract investors, who put more than $26 million into his company, Fyre Media ...
A third lawsuit was filed in New York federal court against Ja Rule, McFarland, Fyre Media, and chief marketing officer Grant Margolin. Plaintiffs Matthew Herlihy and Anthony Lauriello accused the festival organizers of "false representations, material omissions... negligence, fraud, and violations of consumer protection statutes."
He later founded and was CEO of Fyre Media, which developed the Fyre mobile app for booking music talent. In late 2016, along with rapper Ja Rule, McFarland co-founded the Fyre Festival, a "luxury" music festival intended to promote the Fyre app. The event was scheduled to take place April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, but was aborted – after ...
Some people just can't learn a lesson: Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was just arrested for a new ticket-selling scam.
Fresh off four years in prison, barred from ever serving as director of a public company, and buried beneath $26 million in victim paybacks, Billy McFarland, founder of the fraudulent Fyre ...
Billy McFarland at a 2014 Magnises event. Magnises was a card-based membership club co-founded by convicted fraudster Billy McFarland in August 2013. [1] Similar to Fyre Festival, another later scam by McFarland, Ja Rule was the spokesman. [2]
The organizers of last month’s disastrous Fyre Festival have become the focus of a federal criminal investigation. FBI investigating Fyre Fest for mail, wire and securities fraud Skip to main ...