Ferre Festival organizer Billy McFarland: I lied to investors

If only he had enough time, the Fair Festival could be made criminally enjoyable.

In a new jailhouse interview, party organizer Billy McFarland admitted he lied to investors who had planted millions in his infamous 2017 luxury retreat failure – but blamed an unlikely time for the scandal , Which is now giving time for co-organizing.

“I think the biggest mistake before I left was that I was setting an unrealistic deadline for the festival,” said 29-year-old McFarland. Not interviewed After which, according to the radio personality, Con Man was released in seclusion.

“If we had given ourselves a year or two and I had obviously not made the terrible decision to lie to my backers, I think we could have been in a slightly better place, but regardless of whether I What did it do or did it make mistakes ?, ”she continued. “So that’s where things started and ended.”

McFarland does not hesitate to admit that he lied, later stating, “I intentionally lied to him to raise money for the festival.” Yes. And that was the crime. This crime was lying about the state of the company with inefficiency so that I think I could get the necessary money for the festival. ”

Hustler – who is Serving a six-year sentence For fraud, Elkton Federal Correctional Institution of Ohio, currently in Lisbon – swear that the biggest lie he told was for himself and that he had in fact maintained the illusion that he could drag the festival to the very end is.

“I thought the festival was going to end,” he said, before starting a story about trying to rent a cruise ship to give guests a home that promised luxury accommodation Was, but was instead sleeping in a FEMA tent.

In hindrance, he regrets and regrets.

“[There’s] There is no excuse and I wish I could have got up in the morning one of them in the beginning and I just stayed, “he said, adding, at the time, he had the patience to accept and not help He had to spend on his morality.

The interview concluded McFarland admitted that he struggled to apologize properly and no matter how ancient or freezer burned, “I like shrimp a lot.”