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If you spend enough time online, there are likely a few days that are seared into your memory for one reason or another. One of the most memorable is the time Kim Kardashian successfully broke the internet, but there are plenty of other examples, like the afternoon The Dress temporarily brought all other conversations to a halt or the day Harambe was mercilessly gunned down.
However, I don’t know if there was anything more entertaining than the reactions to the Fyre Festival debacle that captivated fans of schuedanfreude around the world. The event’s organizers dropped an insane amount of money to convince millennials to drop an insane amount of money to listen to music on a private island before things took a disastrous turn after the people in charge revealed they had no fucking clue what they were doing.
Ja Rule (of all people) was the target of a fair amount of ire but it was perpetual scam artist Billy McFarland who shouldered most of the blame. He was eventually charged with fraud and was unable to pay for his defense thanks to his decision to live in an apartment that ran him $21,000 a month. Now, it appears he might want to think about finding a roommate.
McFarland pled guilty to the charges against him earlier this year and faced up to 10 years in prison before finally reaching a settlement with the SEC in which he’ll have to pay back $27.4 million, which to my understanding is a pretty big chunk of change.
To add insult to injury, The Verge reports he’ll also be banned from ever being in a position of power at a public company again if the settlement is approved by the court. If this is indeed the end of this saga, I’d like to thank McFarland for making it all possible.