#360 | Fyre Festival | The Worst Festival In The World
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Billy McFarland and the Fire Festival
There were plenty of people who were badly impacted by being involved with Fire Festival. The organisers hired hundreds of people to put up the tents and build the festival infrastructure, but they never saw a penny. Billy McFarland was charged with wire fraud for defrauding investors out of $26 million,. He served four years, he was released in 2022, and is now a free man. But his critics have pointed out that if he thinks the only thing that went wrong at Fire Festival was capacity issues, he may well still have more lessons to learn.
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