NEW YORK: The entrepreneur behind a luxury music festival in the Bahamas that collapsed in chaos admitted that he swindled investors by vastly overstating his financial health.

Billy McFarland, 26, agreed before a federal court in New York to forfeit more than $26 million and pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud, a charge that relates to financial deceit, prosecutors said in a statement.

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