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Fyre Festival Founder Billy McFarland Tells Employees That They Will Not Be Paid In Leaked Audio

<p>The mess that the disastrous Fyre Festival left behind seems to just keep piling on for founder Billy McFarland after it was reported that he wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be paying his Fyre Media employees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;vice&period;com&sol;story&sol;audio-fyre-festival-founders-reveal-to-employees-nobodys-getting-paid">Vice News leaked audio<&sol;a> from a conference call where McFarland explained to his employees that they would not be getting paid for the last two weeks of their work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After conferring with our counsel and all financial people&comma; unfortunately we are not able to proceed with payroll&comma;” McFarland said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re not firing anyone&semi; we’re just letting you know that there will be no payroll in the short term&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>McFarland instead offered the people who would stay on without pay a chance to move up the ladder into better paying positions&period; Fyre Media has already been sued atleast 7 times including a &dollar;100 million class-action lawsuit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I understand that this is not an ideal situation for everybody&comma; and this will likely cause a lot of you to resign&comma; which we totally get and understand&comma;” he said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That said&comma; if you want to stick with us&comma; we’d love to have you and we’d love to work together and hunker down and get back to a place where everything resumes to business as usual&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One employee asked about their fate with the FBI which McFarland responds&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s really more of an individual thing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>JaRule was also on the call but took the backseat as a listener&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Welp&comma; hopefully everyone learned a valuable lesson here&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s chat below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; 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