Execs lining up to take business meetings with con man Billy McFarland

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The Fyre Festival organizer has been surprised to find that being one of the world’s most infamous scammers is good for business, Page Six hears.

in March — and has been stunned to find that it’s even easier to get business meetings than it was before he was convicted of fraud.

According to an insider, McFarland, 31, has recently been telling friends “that people have been very kind to him on the streets, asking for photos with him — much to his surprise,” and also that he’s been shocked by “how easy it is for him to get business meetings.”Patrick McMullan via Getty Image “It seems as though many people want to meet with McFarland for his marketing skills,” says the insider.

McFarland alienated many former associates during the Fyre debacle, including Andy King, who infamously considered performing oral sex to secure the delivery of bottled water to the doomed festival site.Sources say McFarland is living in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn but hopes to make it back to Manhattan when his new ventures get off the ground.

We hear he’s been keeping pretty quiet, and when he was recently spotted blowing off some steam at upscale sports bar Bounce, he told other guests it was only the second time he’d been out on the party scene since getting sprung.

 

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