What a Creep: Billy McFarland (Fyre Festival Fraudster)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What a Creep: Billy McFarland</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Fyre Festival Creep</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Season 10, Episode 7</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/176387/Fyre-Festival.png" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On April 28, 2017, a tweet blew up the Internet from Trevor DeHaas, @trev4president with a picture of a very sad bread and cheese meal saying “Here’s the dinner they fed us tonight. Literally slices of bread, cheese, and salad with no dressing #fyrefraud #fyrefestival #dumpsterfyre</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was day one of the Fyre Festival fraud perpetrated by 25-year old Fyre Media CEO & Founder Billy McFarland. Hundreds of people were stranded, millions of dollars were borrowed and never paid back. Here is the story of one of the biggest (and youngest) frauds we have covered on this show.</span></p> <p><strong>Sources for this episode:</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fyre Festival Wikipedia</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz5kY3RsmKo"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fyre Fest Intro/First Clip</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.nme.com/news/music/ja-rule-is-selling-the-infamous-fyre-festival-cheese-sandwich-tweet-as-an-nft-2915492"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">NME Ja Rule sells Cheese Sandwich for NFT</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-46904445"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> BBC</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/how-fyre-festivals-organizer-scammed-investors-out-of-26-million.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CNBC</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/american-greed/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">CNBC "American Greed"</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-inter