Billy McFarland, perhaps best known as the driving force behind the infamous Fyre Festival, may no longer be in prison, but there’s at least one nation ready to lock him back up if they can find him.
The cliff notes version of McFarland’s story is this: he scammed a bunch of influencers and wanna-be-influencers into paying between $500-$12,000 in tickets alone to participate in what he claimed would be a star-studded, luxury island party experience in the Bahamas. The attendees were left sleeping on the sand, eating cheese sandwiches, and sheltering from rain when McFarland’s vision failed to materialise.
