lost my shit at "'Sex and the City' costume designer"
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 15 September 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
looooool "Paris Hilton DJ set" was a draw for this? loooooooooooool
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Friday, 15 September 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
I mean that surely had to be a case where you wanted to get in there BECAUSE it was cheap and low-rent.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 September 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
News! Kinda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/arts/fyre-festival-organizer-pleads-not-guilty-to-fraud-charges.html
Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur who became a lightning rod in April after his ambitiously marketed Fyre Festival devolved from a would-be luxury getaway into a jamboree of schadenfreude and cold cheese sandwiches, pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud in United States District Court in Manhattan on Monday. Mr. McFarland, 25, who was arrested and charged in June, is accused of misrepresenting financial information about his company to investors who paid him $1.2 million....Mr. McFarland, who was released on bail in July, waived his right to be charged in an indictment by a grand jury. He may still change his plea at any time before trial, including as part of a deal with prosecutors to reduce his charges. If he is found guilty, Mr. McFarland could face a maximum sentence of 20 years.
Mr. McFarland, who was released on bail in July, waived his right to be charged in an indictment by a grand jury. He may still change his plea at any time before trial, including as part of a deal with prosecutors to reduce his charges. If he is found guilty, Mr. McFarland could face a maximum sentence of 20 years.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Thursday, 2 November 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
A sort-of update. (Main bro and Ja Rule could yet be made the responsible debtors in the bankruptcy case.)
http://ampthemag.com/the-real/fyre-fest-bankruptcy-trustee-wants-mcfarland-ja-rule-take-responsibility-disastrous-event/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
cheddarmageddon 2:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiantCheeseboard?src=hash
― mark s, Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
I can’t brielieve how awful #GiantCheeseboard was.I’m stilton fuming. I’ve mulled this over and theres good reason to wine about it. I thought it would be much feta, I expect a briefund #justiceforcheese @mailonline @standardnews @MetroUK @LondonTown @JacobsSnacks @TimeOutLondon— IAmMadden (@IAmMadden) December 16, 2017
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
Glad GOP tax cut will free up more $ for exploitation of rich kids #fyrelegends
― President Keyes, Sunday, 17 December 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUPU7RxVoAA7LxI.jpg:small
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/bjykx4/fyre-festival-attendees-are-worried-theyre-getting-scammed-again (via maura)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
someone's selling the fyre mailing list as "the chump list" on the darknet
― mh, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
Beautiful.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
I mean that speculatively
― mh, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
dream crusher
― sleeve, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
the trouble with tribble
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
https://pagesix.com/2018/03/05/disgraced-fyre-festival-organizer-spent-150k-on-a-yacht-for-blink-182/
And bro will be in court tomorrow.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
And he pled guilty!
http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/fyre-festivals-billy-mcfarland-pleads-guilty-faces-40-year-sentence-1202719944/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
it was sad, he was a legend
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
No, he definitely achieved that now.
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
"40 years in one of your own sad tents, with a cheese sandwich."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
What a luxury sentence!
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
Maybe Blink-187 will visit him.
― nickn, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
Does he not remind anyone else (not in deeds) of a certain ilxor of a certain era? I
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
ew
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
man said ilxor killed Yerac in mid sentence that's fucked up
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link
work sucks, i know
― maura, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
Ha, I wrote this last night and obviously got bored of what I was saying mid-way through. I think it's the eyes.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
I want this immediately.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/live-feed/hulu-lands-fyre-festival-debacle-docuseries-1102725?__twitter_impression=true
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 April 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
Keep trying there.
https://theblast.com/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-ryan-leslie-no-jail/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
He’s also using an ADHD diagnosis to gain sympathy with the judge, claiming the symptoms he suffers on a daily basis are very taxing.McFarland says he has no criminal record, has cooperated with the Feds since the beginning and even plead guilty to the charges. He had numerous family members and friends write letters, along with Leslie’s, to the judge in support of himMcFarland is proposing 6 months of home confinement or a “minimal” period of incarceration, 1,000 hours community service and three years probation. He’s also already agreed to pay back 26 million in restitution.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 11 June 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
I’d agree to paying an astronomical sum that I had no hope or actual intention of coming up with to avoid jail time too.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 11 June 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
He’s also already agreed to pay back 26 million in restitution.
..by maxing out a series of credit cards, which he will then be balance transferring to a second set of credit cards
― mh, Monday, 11 June 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
Hahah!
https://mic.com/articles/189794/exclusive-fyre-festival-founder-billy-mcfarland-hit-with-two-new-criminal-charges#.BHegMga2M
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
According to a court filing, McFarland set up a “sham ticket-selling business for exclusive events through a company controlled and operated by McFarland (”NYC VIP Access”).”The filing alleges that McFarland “perpetrated a scheme to defraud attendees of the Fyre Festival and others by soliciting them to purchase tickets from NYC VIP Access to exclusive events when, in fact, no such tickets existed.”McFarland allegedly engaged in a scheme to sell fake tickets to concerts and sporting events, including events like the Met Gala and Burning Man.
The filing alleges that McFarland “perpetrated a scheme to defraud attendees of the Fyre Festival and others by soliciting them to purchase tickets from NYC VIP Access to exclusive events when, in fact, no such tickets existed.”
McFarland allegedly engaged in a scheme to sell fake tickets to concerts and sporting events, including events like the Met Gala and Burning Man.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3ayma/fyre-fests-founder-is-going-to-prison-but-the-spirit-of-his-scam-lives-on
As a dozen-odd civil and criminal lawsuits inched their way through New York’s state and federal courts this winter, McFarland, out on bail, began pursuing new business ventures. In January, he took meetings in a 1,400-square-foot penthouse room with a private wraparound terrace on the top floor of the swanky Murray Hill Tuscany Hotel in NYC, according to interviews and receipts obtained by VICE News.And despite the criminal charges and the flameout of his last two businesses — Fyre Media and the concierge service Magnises, which offered its members VIP experiences — people showed up to entertain his pitch, a scheme to make money off Instagram live streams.
And despite the criminal charges and the flameout of his last two businesses — Fyre Media and the concierge service Magnises, which offered its members VIP experiences — people showed up to entertain his pitch, a scheme to make money off Instagram live streams.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
Actual LOL: https://www.stereogum.com/2001285/fyre-festival-promoter-billy-mcfarland-arrested-on-fraud-charges/news/#comment-20516582
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Millennial hero
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/04/two-attendees-of-disastrous-fyre-festival-awarded-25m-each
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
2.5m each - URL deceives but still
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
Christ
― Ross, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Seth Crossno and Mark Thompson each paid $13,000 for VIP tickets to the festival on the Bahamas island of Great Exuma
― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Can’t even imagine having 13 k let alone spending it on a ticket
― Ross, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
one way or another this was going to end w a rich guy giving money to another rich guy
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
Yeah, this doesn't surprise me whatsoever!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
damages based on losses for hotels and flights as well as the “mental anguish”
rich ppl's mental anguish is some next level shit
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
imagine if you had the resources to sue, say, a former employer for "mental anguish"
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DizQez1W0AEORUP.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
This is so perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
Plus!
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17608204/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-sec-settlement
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
From the SEC:
McFarland induced investors to entrust him with tens of millions of dollars by fraudulently inflating key operational, financial metrics and successes of his companies, as well as his own personal success – including by giving investors a doctored brokerage account statement purporting to show personal stock holdings of over $2.5 million when, in reality, the account held shares worth under $1,500.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link