Fyre Festival Mastermind Billy McFarland Has Reportedly Been Released From Prison More Than A Year Early
19.05.2022 - 02:33
/ perezhilton.com
The man behind the infamous Fyre Festival s**t show has been released from prison!
On Wednesday afternoon, reports began surfacing that Billy McFarland has apparently been freed from federal prison and possibly transferred to a halfway house. That’s big news, because originally, as part of the six-year prison sentence levied against him back in 2018, he had been expected to spend at least one more year behind bars.
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TMZ was the first to report McFarland’s alleged release, claiming on Wednesday afternoon that he was sprung from federal prison at the very end of March. Since then, he was apparently transferred to “community confinement,” although the outlet notes that is is “unclear” whether that means he’s at home in some type of probationary situation, or living at a halfway house.
Regardless, they report that the Fyre Festival fraudster is “expected to stay” in community confinement at least through the end of August. Like we noted up top, it’s a big jump for McFarland, considering his original release date had been August 30, 2023, per Bureau of Prisons records obtained by A&E.
That outlet notes that the controversial festival pusher had previously served time at federal prisons in New York, Oklahoma, and Ohio. In fact, it was in Ohio — at the Elton Federal Correctional Institution in the city of Lisbon — where McFarland contracted COVID-19 back in April of 2020. At the time, he petitioned the Bureau of Prisons for a compassionate release on medical grounds due to the pandemic, but he was denied.
More recently, McFarland had been serving time at the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, which is a little