Music Festival

Two days after reaching a $27 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 26-year-old creator of last year’s failed “once-in-a-lifetime” Fyre music festival in the Bahamas pleaded guilty to new fraud charges that could land him in prison for over a decade.

MANHATTAN – Two days after reaching a $27 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 26-year-old creator of last year’s failed “once-in-a-lifetime” Fyre music festival in the Bahamas pleaded guilty to new fraud charges that could land him in prison for over a decade.

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