If he only had enough time, Fyre Festival could have been criminally enjoyable.
In a new prison interview, imprisoned party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who lured millions into financing his infamous failure in luxury 2017 awards – but blamed for an impossible timeline for the scam he is now do time for co-organization.
“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 the radio man has since locked up in solitary confinement. has, according to the radio personality.
‘If we had given ourselves a year or two and if I had obviously not made the terrible decision to lie to my fans, I could have been in a better place, but regardless of the mistakes I made or what things made a mistake. , ”He continues. “So, things started and ended there.”
McFarland is not ashamed to admit that he lied, and later said: ‘I knowingly lied to them to raise money for the festival. Yes. And that’s what the crime was. The crime lay inexcusably over the status of the company to get the money I thought I needed for the festival. ”
The hustler – who is serving a six-year sentence for fraud, currently in Lisbon, the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Ohio – swears that the biggest lie he told was for himself and that he could truly perpetuate the error, until the end of the festive end.
“I legally thought the festival would take place,” he said, before starting a story about renting a cruise ship to accommodate guests who were promised luxury housing, but rather in FEMA -tents sleep.
Afterwards he is remorseful and sorry.
‘[There’s] no excuse and I wish I could have just woken up one of those mornings at the beginning and I just stopped, ”he said, admitting that at the time he did not have the patience to get help to stop and his impatience . cost him his morals.
The interview concludes with McFarland confessing that he struggles to apologize properly and that, no matter how old or freezer burned, ‘I like shrimp’