Slowly but surely, the case of Billy McFarland – the once feted and fellated “millennial entrepreneur” and the mastermind of the disastrous Fyre Festival – winds to a conclusion.
Unfortunately, there are a few more chances for Billy to make a shambles of his already torched public image and earn a few more juicy New York Post headlines.
This time his lawyers are asking for leniency, claiming McFarland isn’t a scammer or a Patrick Bateman-like sociopath but that he has “a good heart” and suffered from “poor judgment and by untreated mental illness”:
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McFarland faces 14 years for the Fyre Festival scam, which used Instagram “influencers” to hype up a festival that stranded well-heeled attendees on a Caribbean island.
[…] Fyre Festival. The Manhattan court largely discarded his lawyer’s contention that McFarland suffers from “mental illness” exacerbated by alcohol, including delusions of grandeur that he will become famous and […]