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Fyre Fest Felon Billy McFarland to Fight Web3 YouTuber in Karate Match
Fyre Festival felon Billy McFarland is set to fight YouTuber Justin Custardo during a Web3 conference attended by Joe Rogan and others.
Billy McFarland ‘s long, strange redemption arch is taking another weird turn tonight in Austin, Tex., where the convicted Fyre Fest fraudster will fight in a karate tournament organized to entertain podcaster Joe Rogan and several hundred crypto executives attending a blockchain and Web3 conference. Since being released from prison in May 2022 after serving most of his six-year sentence on fraud charges related to the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, McFarland has managed to stay in the limelight through a variety of media stunts and promises to repay the $26 million he admitted to stealing from investors. The date for that event has been pushed back several times — it’s now supposedly scheduled for sometime in 2025 — with a location, lineup and plan of any kind all TBD at the moment.
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