The ‘Fyre Festival of pizza’ was so bad it’s under investigation

If there’s one thing New Yorkers take seriously, it’s pizza. Which is why it makes total sense that the New York attorney general has reportedly opened an inquiry into a possibly criminally shitty pizza festival.

On Monday, Gothamist reported that attendees of the September 9 New York City Pizza Festival might have been seriously scammed.

As a result of social media complaints about the disparity between what was promised by the event, and the pizza-lacking disaster that materialized, WNYC reports that the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has “opened an inquiry” into the event. Read more…

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