Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland starts a new project from prison - connecting inmates and their families

Billy McFarland is serving a six-year prison sentence for wire fraud in relation to his ill-fated April 2017 Bahamas-based music Fyre Festival, and he is starting a new endeavor from inside prison: crowd-funding money for other inmates to be able to call their loved ones during these trying times. As he's told the New York Post, he hopes his initiative called Project-315 ($3.15 is the standard cost for a 15-minute prison phone call) will bring together and connect in-need inmates and their families who are affected by coronavirus by paying for calls "for as many incarcerated people across the country as possible". He swears it's no scam - “All the money that’s coming in is going directly to the initiative. I’m not on any of the bank accounts or documents and I don’t have access to any of the funds”.