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 to lying to investors who invested millions in financing his notorious luxury retirement failures in 2017 – but blamed an impossible timeline for the deception he faced. do it now for co-organization.
“I think the biggest mistake before I broke down was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview that has since brought on the isolated man, according to the radio personality.
“If we had given ourselves a year or two and obviously had not made the terrible decision to lie to my supporters, I think we could have been in a slightly better place, but regardless of the mistakes we made. I did or what made things go wrong, “He continued.” So that’s where things started and ended. “
McFarland is not shy to admit that he lied, later stating that “I knowingly lied to him to raise money for the festival. Yes. And that was the murder. The crime was inexcusably lying about the company’s status in order to get the money I thought it needed for the festival. ”
Hustler – who is serving a six-year sentence for fraud, currently in Lisbon at Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Ohio – swears that the biggest lie he told was for himself and that he really maintained the illusion that he would could bring the festival to an end.
“I legitimately believed that the festival would be run,” he said, before beginning a story about trying to rent a cruise ship to accommodate guests who were promised luxury housing, but instead came to sleeps in FEMA tents.
In retrospect, he repents and regrets.
“[There’s] no excuses and I wish I had woken up one of those mornings at first and I just stopped, ”he said, acknowledging that at the time, he couldn’t wait to get help to stop and his impatience had cost him moral.
The interview ends with McFarland confessing that he strives to apologize properly and that, no matter how hot the freezer was, “I love shrimp.”