Founder of failed Fyre Festival faces federal fraud charges

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(CNN)The co-founder of the Fyre Festival was arrested and charged with one count of federal wire fraud on Friday, according to the Manhattan US Attorney's Office.

Prosecutors allege that William "Billy" McFarland, co-founder and CEO of Fyre Media, defrauded at least two investors who invested about $1.2 million total in the Fyre Festival. McFarland allegedly also presented one investor with false stock ownership documentation in an effort to legitimize the project.

He was arrested Friday in New York and is scheduled to appear before a US Magistrate Judge on Saturday. It's unclear whether McFarland has an attorney.

In a press release, acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim said McFarland "promised a life-changing music festival, but in actuality delivered a disaster."

"McFarland allegedly presented fake documents to induce investors to put over a million dollars into his company and the fiasco called the Fyre Festival," Kim said.

Disorganization turned festival into failure

The Fyre Festival was promoted by McFarland and Fyre Media as a high-end music festival that took place in the Exumas, in the Bahamas, in April.

Attendees paid up to $12,000 to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime experience that was advertised with models, celebrities, top-notch acts, five-star chefs and private jets and yachts -- only to arrive and find anything but.

The festival turned out to be a massive disaster, with little to no organization, half-built disaster relief tents for shelter, a menu donned with limp cheese sandwiches and -- the worst part -- no beer.

The sealed complaint released Friday alleged McFarland schemed investors to obtain "money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises" from late 2016 to May 2017.

Fyre Festival was short-lived

McFarland started Fyre Media in 2016 to "build a digital app that would allow individuals organizing commercial events, such as concerts, to bid for art and celebrity bookings at such events."

McFarland started organizing and promoting the festival in late 2016, along with rapper Ja Rule. The duo used a handful of female celebrities, including Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, to promote the event, enticing both investors and wealthy concertgoers to participate.

The festival's line-up featured many popular music acts, including Blink-182, Migos, Lil Yachty and Major Lazer. Blink-182 canceled its appearance amid the disorganized chaos.

An attorney filed a $100 million class action lawsuit against Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, and McFarland in May, alleging the event put attendees in danger. No attendees were injured from the event.

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For ‘The Big Sick,’ healthy box office sends a big message

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(CNN)Despite only opening in limited release, "The Big Sick" is enjoying some big attention for its box office gross over the weekend.

While still well below the per-theater averages that last year's Oscar contenders "La La Land" and "Moonlight" saw during their limited releases ($176,221 and $100,519, respectively), "The Big Sick's" performance is still impressive, especially considering the film was up against the fifth installment of big-budget blockbuster franchise "Transformers," which debuted to a new franchise low, and the enduring "Wonder Woman."

Leading up to its release, "The Big Sick" was showered with positive reviews, which praised the film's star and co-writer Nanjiani for bringing the personal, unconventional love story to the screen. (Nanjiani's real-life courtship with eventual wife Emily V. Gordon, who also co-wrote the film, was the inspiration for the story.)

Much like how "Moonlight's" word-of-mouth success and eventual Academy Award win made a strong statement about the hunger for more nuanced stories about the African American experience, "The Big Sick" stands to make a case for the reinvention of a genre starved for inclusivity.

In film, Nanjiani's character falls for a girl named Emily but a messy breakup in part brought on by a culture clash threatens their happy ending -- as does the fact that Emily suddenly and mysteriously falls gravely ill.

The movie explores Nanjiani's character's struggle with his traditional Pakistani Muslim family's expectations and Emily's parents' misconceptions.

Ray Romano and Holly Hunter play Emily's parents.

"What's weird is that it wasn't current when he pitched it to me four years ago," executive producer Judd Apatow told CNN in a recent interview. "It became current later."

Director Michael Showalter and Co. didn't aim to reinvent the rom-com wheel with "The Big Sick." They set out to tell a relatable tale about complicated love. But at the same time, it would be oversimplifying the film to ignore the statements about culture and religion woven into its fabric.

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"That's the magic of this movie," Romano told CNN. "The message or lesson is there but [the movie is] just about relationships and love and family. That's all it is. That, I think, brings it home even more -- how it transcends all this cultural difference and everything."

Showalter, above all, wanted to do the characters justice.

"We wanted to show this family as they are," he said. "We have a lot of stereotypes about what this culture might be in terms of Muslims or immigrants, and we just wanted to be as even handed as we possibly could and show each character as fully developed as they could be -- in the positive and the negative."

He added: "Everyone in this movie is a human being trying to do their best, trying to figure out how they want to be in this country, what choices they want to make, and we wanted to show the full range of that."

"The Big Sick" opens wide on July 14.

CNN's Rick Damigella contributed to this report.

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States try to force Trump’s hand on DACA

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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has let one Obama-era immigration policy continue -- and conservative states are running out of patience.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was joined by his counterparts in nine other states in a letter Thursday warning Attorney General Jeff Sessions that if the Trump administration does not move to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, they will file a court challenge to the program.

At the heart of the threat is ongoing litigation in another related program -- giving the attorneys general an opening to squeeze the administration on DACA.

Despite explicitly pledging during the campaign to "immediately" rescind DACA, the Trump administration has continued to honor the program and issue new permits under it.

The administration has largely tried to have it both ways, continuing the program and pledging to protect its recipients while at the same time saying that situation is not necessarily permanent and arresting individuals that officials say have lost their DACA status. The position has angered activists on both sides of the issue, who have expressed rare agreement on the frustration that the administration won't clearly articulate its long-term plans for DACA.

At issue is pending litigation in Texas that has challenged an Obama administration extension of DACA, a program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children protection from deportation and the ability to work and study, and a similar program instituted for parents of childhood arrivals, which was never allowed to go into effect by the courts.

The Trump administration formally abandoned the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, known as DAPA, earlier this monthto avoid having to defend it in court, but it left DACA on the books despite similar criticism of that program -- namely that both programs were an overreach of executive authority. Asked about the decision by CNN, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly at the time called it "house cleaning," saying one program was blocked by the courts and one wasn't.

But Paxton wrote that if the administration doesn't end DACA by September 5, Texas will amend its complaint in the case to include DACA -- which would force the administration to defend the program in litigation or abandon it.

"We respectfully request that the Secretary of Homeland Security phase out the DACA program," Paxton wrote in the ultimatum. "Otherwise, the complaint in that case will be amended to challenge both the DACA program and the remaining Expanded DACA permits."

The Department of Justice and DHS did not respond to a request for comment on the letter. Sessions was asked about it on "Fox and Friends" on Friday, and seemingly praised the states.

"The DAPA law has already been withdrawn," Sessions said when asked what changes could be coming. "That was a big victory, and we'll be looking at that. But I've got to tell you, I like it that our states and localities are holding the federal government to account, expecting us to do what is our responsibility to the state and locals, and that's to enforce the law."

Despite railing against DACA during the campaign, Trump showed a more sympathetic side side after his election.

"We're going to show great heart," Trump said in a news conference in February. "DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me, I will tell you."

But he also spoke of possible abuses of the program.

"To me, it's one of the most difficult subjects I have because you have these incredible kids, in many cases, not in all cases. And some of the cases, having DACA and they're gang members and they're drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids, I would say mostly."

Immigration advocates, on the other hand, decried the move by the states and called on Congress and the administration to commit to DACA.

"Everyone who has seen DACA ... should really be appalled by this legal low blow on the part of Texas. It's nothing sort of shameful, it's nothing short of repugnant," said Kamal Essaheb, director of policy and advocacy at the National Immigration Law Center, on a call with reporters Friday.

Essaheb also blamed Trump for the whole episode, saying he protected DACA while going after its recipients' communities.

"These mixed messages have caused the situation that even allows Texas to consider what it did," Essaheb said. "The Trump administration can and should shut this down."

Congress has a handful of bipartisan proposals introduced to make DACA permanent by law, thus nullifying the court challenge, but none have received a vote.

Thursday's letter was signed by Paxton and the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia and the governor of Idaho.

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Your Health Care Information Is Insecure — And Extremely Lucrative On The Black Market

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This week, amalware attackstruck Ukrainian computer systems and quickly spread to tens of thousands of machines across dozens of countries,including the U.K. and the United States. The proliferating computer virus, called Petya, raises the question as is often the case when data hacks, breaches and disruptions occur of just how safe an end users personal information is when its on a network.

Not very.

Its unclear whether the Ukrainian attackers were motivated by money or mayhem.But money is certainly the motive when it comes to what likely impacts individuals far more than a malware virus: the theft of your personal health records.

TrendMicro, an information security company, has reported that the health care sectoris now the preferred target for cybercriminals. The industry, with hospitals leading the way, has been the top target of data breaches, followed by government and retail.In 2015, a total of 113.2 million health care-related records were stolen, the most ever, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer for TrendMicro and former chief information security officer for the U.S. Secret Service, told HuffPost that medical records are targeted by cybercriminals because they contain the most comprehensive data and provide multiple selling opportunities for the so-called dark web.

An electronic health record database contains personal information that does not expire such as Social Security numbers and can be used over and over for malicious intent, Cabrera said.

The cybercriminal underground can cherry-pick the various parts of protected health information records, which include medical histories, test results, health issues past and present, prescription drug use, treatments, methods of payment, home addresses, credit card numbers, health insurance information, Social Security number and birthdate. The data can get right down to the date of your last menstrual cycle.

Thieves can use stolen electronic health records to get prescription drugs, receive medical care and file fake insurance claims. They can exploit Social Security numbers to file fraudulent tax returns, open credit accounts, and obtain official government-issued documents, such as passports and drivers licenses. They can even create new identities.

The stolen information is usually resold, either as a whole record or piecemeal, on popular dark web marketplaces, including TheRealDeal, AlphaBay, Valhalla, Apple Market, Python Market, Dream Market and Silk Road, according to the TrendMicro report.

Interested cyberbuyers may only want health insurance numbers, which sell for 99-cents each on the underground, says the TrendMicro report. Those who trade in drugs may be interested in your prescription for opioids. Having your email in combination with other proof of identity can enable a thief to have the delivery address changed for mail-order pharmaceuticals or packages ordered online. Those who engage in cyberespionage for a nation-state may pay mightily for sensitive health information about a political or corporate leader. Like any other free market, rates are based on supply and demand, Cabrera said.

Medical records also have a long shelf life.If a thief steals your credit card or bank account number, its useful only until the credit limit is maxed out or you report the loss and the account is closed. But some information in a medical record can provide steady long-term income for scammers, Cabrera said.

Credit card companies and banks have vastly improved their ability to protect your data, Cabrera said. Health information systems? Not so much, which makes them a better target, he said, adding that some improvements have been made.

The Ponemon Institute,a security research and consulting organization, said in its May 2016 annual study on health care data privacy and security that about half of all health care organizations had little or no confidence that they could detect the loss or theft of patient data, and that the majority lack the budget to secure their data. The study found that most health care organizations havent invested in security technologies or staff.

While cyberattacks on the health care industry may pose immediate health risks to patients, with consequences like hospitals closing and procedures needing to be rescheduled, the big concern must include data breaches, Cabrera said.

And realistically, theres little you can do about it. Patients are at the mercy of the organizations they interact with, Cabrera said. If your doctor or hospital wants your drivers license or Social Security number as a condition of treatment, youre probably going to turn them over.

Cabrera suggested people use their real-life experience in their virtual life online. If you were traveling in a dangerous location, you would take precautions. Apply that same caution to your interactions with the health care industry. And be careful out there.

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States try to force Trump’s hand on DACA

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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has let one Obama-era immigration policy continue -- and conservative states are running out of patience.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was joined by his counterparts in nine other states in a letter Thursday warning Attorney General Jeff Sessions that if the Trump administration does not move to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, they will file a court challenge to the program.

At the heart of the threat is ongoing litigation in another related program -- giving the attorneys general an opening to squeeze the administration on DACA.

Despite explicitly pledging during the campaign to "immediately" rescind DACA, the Trump administration has continued to honor the program and issue new permits under it.

The administration has largely tried to have it both ways, continuing the program and pledging to protect its recipients while at the same time saying that situation is not necessarily permanent and arresting individuals that officials say have lost their DACA status. The position has angered activists on both sides of the issue, who have expressed rare agreement on the frustration that the administration won't clearly articulate its long-term plans for DACA.

At issue is pending litigation in Texas that has challenged an Obama administration extension of DACA, a program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children protection from deportation and the ability to work and study, and a similar program instituted for parents of childhood arrivals, which was never allowed to go into effect by the courts.

The Trump administration formally abandoned the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, known as DAPA, earlier this monthto avoid having to defend it in court, but it left DACA on the books despite similar criticism of that program -- namely that both programs were an overreach of executive authority. Asked about the decision by CNN, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly at the time called it "house cleaning," saying one program was blocked by the courts and one wasn't.

But Paxton wrote that if the administration doesn't end DACA by September 5, Texas will amend its complaint in the case to include DACA -- which would force the administration to defend the program in litigation or abandon it.

"We respectfully request that the Secretary of Homeland Security phase out the DACA program," Paxton wrote in the ultimatum. "Otherwise, the complaint in that case will be amended to challenge both the DACA program and the remaining Expanded DACA permits."

The Department of Justice and DHS did not respond to a request for comment on the letter. Sessions was asked about it on "Fox and Friends" on Friday, and seemingly praised the states.

"The DAPA law has already been withdrawn," Sessions said when asked what changes could be coming. "That was a big victory, and we'll be looking at that. But I've got to tell you, I like it that our states and localities are holding the federal government to account, expecting us to do what is our responsibility to the state and locals, and that's to enforce the law."

Despite railing against DACA during the campaign, Trump showed a more sympathetic side side after his election.

"We're going to show great heart," Trump said in a news conference in February. "DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me, I will tell you."

But he also spoke of possible abuses of the program.

"To me, it's one of the most difficult subjects I have because you have these incredible kids, in many cases, not in all cases. And some of the cases, having DACA and they're gang members and they're drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids, I would say mostly."

Immigration advocates, on the other hand, decried the move by the states and called on Congress and the administration to commit to DACA.

"Everyone who has seen DACA ... should really be appalled by this legal low blow on the part of Texas. It's nothing sort of shameful, it's nothing short of repugnant," said Kamal Essaheb, director of policy and advocacy at the National Immigration Law Center, on a call with reporters Friday.

Essaheb also blamed Trump for the whole episode, saying he protected DACA while going after its recipients' communities.

"These mixed messages have caused the situation that even allows Texas to consider what it did," Essaheb said. "The Trump administration can and should shut this down."

Congress has a handful of bipartisan proposals introduced to make DACA permanent by law, thus nullifying the court challenge, but none have received a vote.

Thursday's letter was signed by Paxton and the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia and the governor of Idaho.

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Your Health Care Information Is Insecure — And Extremely Lucrative On The Black Market

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This week, amalware attackstruck Ukrainian computer systems and quickly spread to tens of thousands of machines across dozens of countries,including the U.K. and the United States. The proliferating computer virus, called Petya, raises the question as is often the case when data hacks, breaches and disruptions occur of just how safe an end users personal information is when its on a network.

Not very.

Its unclear whether the Ukrainian attackers were motivated by money or mayhem.But money is certainly the motive when it comes to what likely impacts individuals far more than a malware virus: the theft of your personal health records.

TrendMicro, an information security company, has reported that the health care sectoris now the preferred target for cybercriminals. The industry, with hospitals leading the way, has been the top target of data breaches, followed by government and retail.In 2015, a total of 113.2 million health care-related records were stolen, the most ever, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer for TrendMicro and former chief information security officer for the U.S. Secret Service, told HuffPost that medical records are targeted by cybercriminals because they contain the most comprehensive data and provide multiple selling opportunities for the so-called dark web.

An electronic health record database contains personal information that does not expire such as Social Security numbers and can be used over and over for malicious intent, Cabrera said.

The cybercriminal underground can cherry-pick the various parts of protected health information records, which include medical histories, test results, health issues past and present, prescription drug use, treatments, methods of payment, home addresses, credit card numbers, health insurance information, Social Security number and birthdate. The data can get right down to the date of your last menstrual cycle.

Thieves can use stolen electronic health records to get prescription drugs, receive medical care and file fake insurance claims. They can exploit Social Security numbers to file fraudulent tax returns, open credit accounts, and obtain official government-issued documents, such as passports and drivers licenses. They can even create new identities.

The stolen information is usually resold, either as a whole record or piecemeal, on popular dark web marketplaces, including TheRealDeal, AlphaBay, Valhalla, Apple Market, Python Market, Dream Market and Silk Road, according to the TrendMicro report.

Interested cyberbuyers may only want health insurance numbers, which sell for 99-cents each on the underground, says the TrendMicro report. Those who trade in drugs may be interested in your prescription for opioids. Having your email in combination with other proof of identity can enable a thief to have the delivery address changed for mail-order pharmaceuticals or packages ordered online. Those who engage in cyberespionage for a nation-state may pay mightily for sensitive health information about a political or corporate leader. Like any other free market, rates are based on supply and demand, Cabrera said.

Medical records also have a long shelf life.If a thief steals your credit card or bank account number, its useful only until the credit limit is maxed out or you report the loss and the account is closed. But some information in a medical record can provide steady long-term income for scammers, Cabrera said.

Credit card companies and banks have vastly improved their ability to protect your data, Cabrera said. Health information systems? Not so much, which makes them a better target, he said, adding that some improvements have been made.

The Ponemon Institute,a security research and consulting organization, said in its May 2016 annual study on health care data privacy and security that about half of all health care organizations had little or no confidence that they could detect the loss or theft of patient data, and that the majority lack the budget to secure their data. The study found that most health care organizations havent invested in security technologies or staff.

While cyberattacks on the health care industry may pose immediate health risks to patients, with consequences like hospitals closing and procedures needing to be rescheduled, the big concern must include data breaches, Cabrera said.

And realistically, theres little you can do about it. Patients are at the mercy of the organizations they interact with, Cabrera said. If your doctor or hospital wants your drivers license or Social Security number as a condition of treatment, youre probably going to turn them over.

Cabrera suggested people use their real-life experience in their virtual life online. If you were traveling in a dangerous location, you would take precautions. Apply that same caution to your interactions with the health care industry. And be careful out there.

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