His sentencing is set to take place on June 21st.įyre Fest’s rapid implosion was met with glee by nearly everyone who hadn’t spent thousands of dollars on a ticket. Last month, McFarland plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud, and accepted a plea deal that would reduce his sentence from 20 years to eight to 10 years plus a maximum $300,000 fine, Bloomberg reports. And the Yankees beat the Devil Rays 21-4 last night, which both tabs agree puts the team in the “21 Club.” Yuk yuk yuk.The currently untitled docuseries, developed by Mic, Billboard, and Cinemart theaters, reportedly features interviews with employees, local Bahamians, vendors, and festivalgoers, as well as “leaked documents, emails, and recordings.” The series will attempt to explain what happened from the festival’s inception to its cancelation, as well as the ensuing legal fallout.Ī few months after the festival was canceled, McFarland was arrested and charged with wire fraud by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which alleged that he had altered stock ownership statements and mislead Fyre Festival investors.Midtown businesses that lost money to last week’s steam-pipe blast will not see a red cent from Con Ed - not even restaurants that lost their supplies to spoilage when the power was cut.In rapper-arrest news, Lil Wayne and Ja Rule have been picked up on separate (!) gun-possession charges in busts an hour apart.Should be a lively campaign, as they say. Councilman and former Black Panther Charles Barron (he of the “Sonny Carson” avenue-renaming idea Bloomberg called “the worst ever”) announced he’s running to replace Marty Markowitz as the Brooklyn beep.
(Actually, spread across the clan, the estimated $500 million in profit a Dow Jones sale would bring doesn’t sound like a staggering amount.)
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