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    Fyre Festival Co-Founder Billy McFarland Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison

    McFarland also was ordered to pay restitution of just more than $26 million during the sentencing, where a judge called him a "serial fraudster."
    by Andrew Flanagan Oct 11, 2018 2 minutes
    Billy McFarland, photographed outside of Federal Court in Manhattan on July 1, 2017.

    Billy McFarland, a co-founder of the schadenfreude-rich, hospitality-poor debacle known as the Fyre Festival, has been sentenced to six years in prison and three years on probation; he also will have to pay restitution of just more than $26 million. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald presided over McFarland's sentencing in the U.S. Southern District Court in Manhattan on Thursday.

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