If he had had enough time, the Fyre Festival could have been criminally fun.
In a new prison interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to investors who invested millions in financing his notorious failure at the luxury retreat in 2017 – but blamed an impossible timeline for the coup he now carries out for the co-organization.
“I think the biggest mistake before I went wrong was to set an unrealistic deadline for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unauthorized interview that has since put the swindler in solitary confinement, according to the personality of the radio.
“If we had given ourselves a year or two and obviously hadn’t made the terrible decision to lie to my sponsors, I think we could be in a slightly better place, but regardless of the mistakes I made or what made things go wrong,” He continued, “So that’s when things started and ended.”
McFarland is not ashamed to admit that he lied, later reaffirming that, “I consciously lied to them to raise money for the festival. yea. And that was the crime. The crime was to lie inexcusably about the company’s status in order to get the money I thought I needed for the festival ”.
The trafficker – serving a six-year sentence for fraud, currently in Lisbon, Elkton Federal Correctional Institution, Ohio – swears that the biggest lie he told was to himself and that he genuinely maintained the illusion that he could withdraw the festival until the day end.
“I really thought the festival was going to run,” he said, before starting a story about trying to charter a cruise ship to house guests who had promised luxury villas but ended up sleeping in FEMA tents.
In retrospect, he is sorry and sorry.
“[There’s] no excuse and I wish I could have woken up one of those mornings at the beginning and just stopped ”, he said, acknowledging that at the time, he had not had the patience to ask for help to stop and his impatience cost him his morale.
The interview ends with McFarland confessing that he struggles to apologize properly and that, no matter how much burned or burned in the freezer, “I love shrimp”.