Fyre Fest’s Billy McFarland Introduces New Project From Jail, “It’s Not A Scam”

Fyre Festival scammer Billy McFarland is ready to get back to business, and this time he has put together a scheme to bring inmates and their families together!

“Coronavirus is driving families apart . . . and visits are canceled across every federal prison,” McFarland exclusively tells the NY Post. “I’m launching an initiative called Project-315 to bring together and connect in-need inmates and their families who are affected by a coronavirus. We’re going to pay for calls for as many incarcerated people across the country as possible.”

Billy is adamant that his latest project is not a scam. He claims that prison has changed him and he wants to help prisoners connect with their families as visits have been stopped due to the ongoing Coronavirus crisis.

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“I see the important things in life . . . way more,” he adds. Mcfarland is currently serving time at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Lisbon, Ohio. “I got lost during Fyre — thinking that I had to make it work at all costs. I realize how immature and wrong that thought process was. I’ve grown up in jail.

“There’s no question I totally messed up. It really makes me sick.”

As we reported, Billy was sentenced to six years in prison for wire fraud after his shambles of a festival in the Bahamas left many people without money and a way home in 2017. He acknowledges his mistakes and understands why people would think it is a scam, but promises that it is not. He is collecting donations on Project-315.com.

A message on the site reads,

“First, I’d like you to know that I know how badly I messed up. I lied, deceived, and ultimately hurt many people in pursuit of what I thought would be successful business ventures. What I did was absolutely despicable, and the responsibility for the damages caused starts and ends with me.”

“It’s totally reasonable that people would think this is a scam. The good thing is, this isn’t for me — it’s for the families of inmates, who are suffering because of what their loved ones did.”

“My friends are contributing off the bat, so we’ll help the first few thousand families and we’ll go from there,” he adds. “I have a small business team of four or five people, a mix of tech and entertainment people” — none of whom were involved in the Fyre Festival — helping.

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