[www.nbcnews.com]

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 Festival, wants to make a comeback.

“I was talking to somebody yesterday and they’re like, ‘You can crawl in a hole and die, or you can go and try to do something and just like not promise any results,’’’ McFarland said in a recent interview with NBC News.

It was, basically, the promises that got him last time. McFarland went from obscure New York City entrepreneur to world-renowned fraudster after the collapse of his festival became a cultural moment: an event promoted on social media by high-profile models and celebrities overpromising a Coachella for the Bahamas with luxury villas and decadent dishes. The festival instead imploded, leaving many attendees in FEMA tents and eating packaged sandwiches — and none of the promised entertainment. Attendees’ desperate posts went viral, and the disaster spawned two documentaries and dozens of podcasts.

In October 2018, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud.

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‘You can crawl in a hole and die, or you can go and try to do something and just like not promise any results…’’

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The bartender asks the rabbit "what'll ya have?"
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Someone was recently telling me that the documentary about that "festival" was very well done.

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Hurts like a bastid...

Can we vote for the hole thing?

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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

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mrbigstuff
Someone was recently telling me that the documentary about that "festival" was very well done.

might have been me - here's a trailer - great story!

[www.youtube.com]

Take one for the team.

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