If only he had had enough time, the Fyre Festival would have been criminally fun.
In a new interview in prison, jailed party organizer Billy McFarland admitted he lied to investors who spent millions to fund his famous 2017 luxury retirement failure, but blamed an impossible timeline. for the scam that now takes time to co-organize.
“I think the biggest mistake before I got it wrong was simply setting an unrealistic time period for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unapproved interview since then. has made the conman isolated, according to the personality of the radio.
“If we had given ourselves a year or two and obviously if I hadn’t made the terrible decision to lie to my sponsors, I think we could have been in a slightly better place, but regardless of the mistakes I made or what he made. that things were going wrong, “he continued. “So that’s where things started and ended.”
McFarland is not shy when it comes to admitting that he lied and then stated that “I consciously lied to them to raise money for the festival. Yes. And that was the crime. The crime inexcusably lied about the company’s situation to get the money it thought it needed for the festival. ”
The announcer, who is serving a six-year sentence for fraud, currently at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Lisbon, Ohio, swears that the biggest lie he told was for himself and that he really kept the illusion of to be able to take the festival to the very end.
“I legitimately thought the festival would run,” he said, before embarking on a story about trying to rent a cruise to accommodate guests who had been promised luxury housing but ended up sleeping in the FEMA stores.
In retrospect, he repents and regrets.
“[There’s] without excuse and I wish I had been able to wake up one of those mornings at first and I had just stopped, ”he said, acknowledging that at the time he had not had the patience to get help to stop and his impatience it had cost him morale.
The interview concludes with McFarland confessing that he struggles to apologize properly and that, no matter how old or frozen it is burned, “I love prawns”.