By Craig McCarthy | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on April 29, 2017 at 11:25 AM, updated April 29, 2017 at 1:28 PM
One of the people at the center of the Fyre Festival fiasco, Billy McFarland, is a New Jersey native and college dropout, who’s been referred to as Ja Rule’s “tech partner.”
The 25-year-old co-organizer told Rolling Stone on Friday the planners were “overwhelmed” and “a little naive” in trying to pull off the botched luxury festival in the Bahamas, which promised a genre-spanning lineup of bands.
