Fyre Festival Attendees Seek To Add Back Defendant, Citing New Evidence

Mealey's (October 17, 2019, 11:46 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The man who was purported to be the chief marketing officer (CMO) of the 2017 Fyre Festival should be added back as a defendant in the putative class complaint by attendees who allege they were promised a posh music festival and instead found themselves on an island lacking adequate food, water, shelter and medical care now that new evidence shows that the former defendant knew or should have known of the fraud that was taking place, the attendees allege in an Oct. 10 motion for reconsideration filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (In re Fyre Festival Litigation, No. 17-3296, S.D. N.Y.)....