Prosecutors rebuff Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland's request for release from prison.
A Hulu documentary pulls back the curtain on the musical festival that was billed as a lavish, one-of-a-kind Bahamas bash but ended as a bust.Billy McFarland, the convicted Fyre Festival music festival fraudster, petitioned a court earlier this month for compassionate release amid theMcFarland gained notoriety after documentaries about the botched music festival hit streaming services last year.
Home confinement guidelines would be “unenforceable” because of the uncertainty at those locations, prosecutors claimed.McFarland’s lawyers in a filing earlier this month said McFarland suffered from pre-existing health conditions and that he was the “ideal” candidate for compassionate release due to the CARES Act.
“The defendant, unlike many others who have moved for release in recent days and weeks, is young and has no documented medical conditions that render him particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. The defendant provides no documentation of any medical conditions, nor is there reference to any serious medical conditions in his prison medical records,” prosecutors said, adding that he did not report any medical conditions to the probation office before turning himself in.
According to court documents, McFarland had a pen with a USB recording device inside that he initially denied knowing about.
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