{"id":123924,"date":"2019-02-08T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ja-rule-and-billy-mcfarland-nailed-for-2-8-million-in-lawsuit-over-fyre-festival-2"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:18:14","slug":"ja-rule-and-billy-mcfarland-nailed-for-2-8-million-in-lawsuit-over-fyre-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ja-rule-and-billy-mcfarland-nailed-for-2-8-million-in-lawsuit-over-fyre-festival-2","title":{"rendered":"Ja Rule and Billy McFarland Nailed for $P.H Million in Lawsuit Over Fyre Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-71666\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2019_02_08_billy-mcfarland-ja-rule-loses-lawsuit-fyre-festival-funding-ehl\">\n<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>      <span class=\"hf1\">Ja Rule &amp; Billy McFarland<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"hf2\">Nailed for $2.8 Mil in Fyre Fest Suit!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-posted-date\">\n<\/h5>\n<p>     2\/8\/2019 7:21 AM PST<\/p>\n<div class=\"all-post-body group article-content\">\n<p><span>EXCLUSIVE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Billy McFarland\" alt=\"Billy McFarland\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ja-Rule-and-Billy-McFarland-Nailed-for-2.8-Million-in-Lawsuit-Over-Fyre-Festival.jpg\" \/><strong>Billy McFarland<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/ja-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ja Rule<\/strong><\/a> are gonna have to scrounge together about $3 mil to pay back an investment company that got screwed when <strong>Fyre Festival<\/strong> imploded \u2026 TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>EHL Funding sued Ja and Billy over $3 million they loaned the duo less than 3 weeks before Fyre Fest was supposed to go down in April 2017. As we all know now \u2014 courtesy of the Netflix and Hulu documentaries \u2014 McFarland was way over his head at that time and scrambling to get any and all financial support for the concert.<\/p>\n<p>According to docs, EHL won a default judgment because neither Billy nor Ja responded to the lawsuit. McFarland\u2019s been a little busy \u2014 he started serving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/10\/11\/fyre-festival-organizer-billy-mcfarland-sentenced-wire-fraud-case\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>6-year prison sentence<\/strong><\/a> for wire fraud last year.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j8lNWj5Atu0&#038;w=728&#038;h=410]<\/p>\n<p>The judge ordered them to fork over $2,891,600 \u2026 plus 30 percent interest dating back to August 2017 \u2026 and EHL\u2019s attorney fees \u2014 which ya just know are gonna be enormous.<\/p>\n<p>Big win for EHL \u2026 on paper. Collecting from these guys might be tough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun fact<\/strong>: McFarland is doing his time at NY\u2019s Otisville federal prison \u2026 same place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/mike-sorrentino\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mike \u201cThe Situation\u201d Sorrentino<\/strong><\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/01\/15\/mike-the-situation-surrenders-prison-sentence-tax-evasion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>locked up<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>President Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s ex-lawyer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/michael-cohen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michael Cohen<\/strong><\/a>, will be there soon too!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2017\/04\/28\/fyre-festival-fail\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Billy McFarland Nailed\" alt=\"Billy McFarland Nailed\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1549641967_673_Ja-Rule-and-Billy-McFarland-Nailed-for-2.8-Million-in-Lawsuit-Over-Fyre-Festival.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/02\/08\/billy-mcfarland-ja-rule-loses-lawsuit-fyre-festival-funding-ehl\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/ja-rule-and-billy-mcfarland-nailed-for-2-8-million-in-lawsuit-over-fyre-festival\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ja Rule &amp; Billy McFarland Nailed for $2.8 Mil in Fyre Fest Suit!!! 2\/8\/2019 7:21 AM PST EXCLUSIVE Billy McFarland and Ja Rule are gonna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}