Fyre Festival Swindler Billy McFarland Receives Early Release from Prison

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Billy McFarland, the brains behind the infamously fraudulent Fyre Festival, has been released from federal prison over a year before the completion of his sentence.

, has been released from federal prison over a year before the completion of his sentence, prison records show.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ online inmate search, McFarland was released into the custody of New York’s Residential Reentry Management, the federal agency responsible for placing released prisoners into halfway houses. that McFarland, who was scheduled to remain incarcerated until August 2023, was placed into the Residential Reentry Management on March 30.

Fyre Festival, which McFarland organized alongside rapper JaRule, was billed as a luxury experience — part music festival, part highly cultivated social event — aimed at luring terminally online would-be influencers and millennials with cash to the Bahamian island of Great Exuma for two “transformative” weekends of non-stop partying.

 

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With Fyre fest fraud, Billy McFarland, & Phrama Bro fraud, Martin Shkreli, both being released from prison, we must see them team up to create Pharma Fest, where ppl pay top$$ to do drugs and make up stories about festivals they've gone to - Aka Saturday night for Amber Heard.

“Brains” 🤭

Get ready for the FyreCoin NFT

All of Anna Delvey's friends are getting free

…“Damn I gotta get In on this being white thing..” - Dave Chappell 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

This dude & Shkreli same day? There a sudden need for space or are they getting a team together to find & bring back the apes?

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