Yeah, this doesn't surprise me whatsoever!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
damages based on losses for hotels and flights as well as the “mental anguish”
rich ppl's mental anguish is some next level shit
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
imagine if you had the resources to sue, say, a former employer for "mental anguish"
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DizQez1W0AEORUP.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
This is so perfect.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
Plus!
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17608204/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-sec-settlement
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
From the SEC:
McFarland induced investors to entrust him with tens of millions of dollars by fraudulently inflating key operational, financial metrics and successes of his companies, as well as his own personal success – including by giving investors a doctored brokerage account statement purporting to show personal stock holdings of over $2.5 million when, in reality, the account held shares worth under $1,500.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
I should just believe it at this point, but the financial shenanigans in several recent cases where it comes down to people flat-out lying about account balances or doctoring paperwork is astounding
― mh, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
You know how easy it is to view source and edit the number in your balance.
― devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
I'm surely doing things wrong when I have to provide detailed account information in order to secure a home mortgage -- I should be asking for a thousand times the amount of money and just scrawling zeroes onto a printout of my bank balance and then faxing it over
― mh, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
silby's got it
Oh and another guilty plea today!
Dude gets convicted of #fraud for #FyreFestival in #Bahamas, out on bond awaiting #sentencing of 8 to 10 years, then commits multiple new fraud charges while out on bond, now facing up to 75 years in #prison with new guilty plea deal. This guy is sharp. https://t.co/5Vayn0bXdO— Billy MacLeod (@BillyMacLeod) July 27, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2018 05:34 (five years ago) link
#fraud#prison
― devops mom (silby), Friday, 27 July 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
#Shithead
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 July 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
it was nuts when you look back
https://discourse-cdn-sjc1.com/business5/uploads/drownedinsound/optimized/3X/c/4/c417d16e59323c9e5efbf1f217d288cfc6fb94ea_1_674x500.jpg
― piscesx, Friday, 27 July 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
"what's the deal with all the feral dogs?" is a line i think about a lot
― mark s, Friday, 27 July 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
@ApocalypticSeinfeld
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 July 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
"who has the fucking conch in this joint?!"
― Hunt3r, Friday, 27 July 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
this is one of those rare stories that would work equally well adapted as either a riotous comedy of errors or a terrifying descent-into-madness horror movie
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 July 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
cannibal lolocaust
― mark s, Friday, 27 July 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
would watch
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 July 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
ferris bueller's flesh off
― mark s, Friday, 27 July 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
21 stump feet
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 July 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Feral Dog Day Afternoon.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Friday, 27 July 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
a wild pack of fyre fest dogs
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 27 July 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
it's wild hogs that live there, for that irl Lord of the Flies connection.
but saying you are chased by wild dogs (and possibly wolves!) def sounds tougher, you a real man now dog.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 July 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
I only get chased by artisanal untamed dogs
― omar little, Friday, 27 July 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
Indeed?
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/festivals/8476448/ja-rule-fyre-festival-failure-interview-drink-champs-video
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 September 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
I don't think I've ever wanted the death penalty for anyone. There's a first time for everything, I'd reckon.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
lol he is now talking about the allegations as if they're true.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
sorry wrong thread :)
he's looking trim at least
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
If the courts buy this then who’s going to be the intrepid mental health expert that breaks the tender news to literally all of Silicon Valley
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Thursday, 27 September 2018 04:47 (five years ago) link
(btw very proud to have a reason for posting in this legendary thread)
Six years, not nearly enough but even so. (He's pled guilty to other charges he's not been sentenced for yet.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fyre-festival-founder-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-2018-10
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 October 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
ja rule skates, sad to see
(six years is quite a long time ned! i know this guy was a villain and a dick as well as a legend but don't let's let carceral fever consume us!)
― mark s, Friday, 12 October 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
I had missed this.
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/fyre-festival-founder-billy-mcfarland-apologizes-from-prison-im-devastated-but-accepting-1203021236/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 November 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah.
Get your exclusive first look at FYRE — a revealing new doc about the insanity and rapid unraveling of Fyre Festival: the greatest party that never happened. Premieres January 18. #NetflixNewsWeek pic.twitter.com/B4iaR3UJwM— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) December 10, 2018
Quick note that this is separate from the Hulu documentary series. I will happily watch both.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
stoked for the madness babee
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
so looking forward to thatalso I first had this thought when watching the Amy Winehouse documentary is that the documentary is really different now that -- if you can get in touch with people -- literally every second of every event has been recorded or photographed by someone on their phone
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
Schadenfyred
― dinnerboat, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
I’m mostly looking forward to a movie not so much a documentary.
― Siegbran, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
"It's Jonestown all over again!"
― nickn, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
a producers-esque scheme to stage a failed festival in order to be immortalized in multiple documentaries
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
let’s just do it and be legends immortalized in multiple documentaries
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
I Am The God Of Hell Fyre
― Siegbran, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
A week and a day to go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0KNVU2fV0
Again, Hulu documentary series following later in the year.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Hahaha or rather, NOW. Hulu clearly thought "Yeah, about that," and their own documentary -- a standalone move in the end, not a series -- is now live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljkaq_he-BU
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Scott Tobias with some good reporting on some of the differences between the two documentaries:
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/1/15/18183308/fyre-festival-documentary-netflix-hulu-billy-mcfarland-pay
Borrowing a comment of mine elsewhere: Neither will tell the whole story, so I’ll enjoy both. And I very much enjoyed the Hulu one last night, a few clunky moments aside (generational assumptions/explanations are far less interesting than reflections on the eternal nature of scamming, and more of those would have been nice). It was fairly obvious that McFarland was getting trashed by everyone and everything — including the evidence — throughout the Hulu one and it was worth it to see his multiple moments of flopsweat and freezing in the headlights — also willing to bet whatever money he got was immediately eaten up by legal fees. (And I mean, dude then pled guilty, is in prison now and has been ordered to repay an amount in the millions.) If the Netflix one does a similarly good job at trashing the Fuck Jerry squad then I’m fine and perhaps they might; how they present themselves in the film could be just as self-owning. If their film paints a ‘we were but innocents’ picture then nah. (FJ specifically put the blame on an ex-employee of theirs who is in the Hulu documentary and clearly wasn't having it; given all the still-pending lawsuits across the board I'm partially surprised there's as much on the record as there is.)
Also, the Hulu one gave some time to a number of Bahamian voices, including workers who were never paid, and a local reporter who got in a slew of well-observed points re economic dynamics and the tourism industrial complex as the film went along -- vitally important and nothing to sneeze at. The Netflix one has to at least match that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
footage of feral dogs or gtfo
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link