Fyre Festival was a fraudulent luxury music festival founded by con artist Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule. It was created with the intent of promoting the company&#x27;s Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place on April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on the Bahamian ...

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In August 2013, McFarland seeded payments company Magnises with $1.5 million of investor funding, aiming to create an exclusive &quot;black card&quot; with social perks, such as club membership, targeted at status-oriented millennials in certain big cities. McFarland also launched Fyre Media Inc., the ...

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In July 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that McFarland, two companies he founded (Fyre Media and Magnises), a former senior executive, and a former contractor had agreed to settle charges against them.

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Now, documents show that the CEO ... of Fyre, also claimed to have “final cut” over the documentary while it was being put together. Though his editing authority was later “superseded by the distribution agreement where the final cut was with the director,” according to Netflix, the way the movie was produced suggests that FuckJerry used the film to launder the troubled company’s ...

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McFarland, now 27, grew up in New ... company, and he briefly attended Bucknell University before dropping out after less than a year. McFarland presented himself as a successful serial entrepreneur, having launched multiple high-profile ventures before he turned 25. But FBI agent John Casale, who oversaw the criminal investigation into Fyre Festival and ...

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McFarland pleaded guilty in March 2018 to wire-fraud charges in relation to Fyre Festival, which became infamous after hundreds of attendees were left stranded in the Bahamas last year. In June 2018, McFarland was arrested again on charges of selling fake tickets through a different company, called ...

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In July 2018, Margolin faced fraud-related charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alongside McFarland, independent contractor Daniel Simon, Fyre Media, and McFarland&#x27;s shady credit card company, Magnises. Margolin was also Magnises&#x27; vice president of marketing and branding.

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Elliot Tebele, creator of Jerry Media (or FuckJerry as it was called when the company was doing Fyre’s promotion), is an executive producer of the Netflix documentary. However, Tebele and Jerry Media made large donations to Rolle’s GoFundMe, totaling $30,000.

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McFarland is currently serving six years in prison for fraud related to Fyre Festival and for additional defrauding, but before he became known for screwing a ton of people over, he had another business. McFarland had a &quot;credit card&quot; company called Magnises that was meant to be an elite credit ...

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By now most of us would have heard of the infamous Fyre Festival in 2017 where investors lost over $27.4 million dollars. The festival’s pitch deck has resurfaced online in 2019 and has been labeled as <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/fyre-festival-pitch-deck" target="_blank">‘beyond parody’</a>.

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