Fyre Festival could’ve been criminally fun. In a new jailhouse interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who put millions into funding his notorious 2017 luxury retreat failure — but blamed an impossible timeline for the scam he’s now doing time for co-organizing. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview which has since landed the con man in solitary confinement, according to the radio personality.“Had we given ourselves a year or two and had I obviously not made the terrible decision to lie to my backers, I think we could have been in a bit better place,.
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