I was conned by festival pal: Mensa member

A POLYAMORY evangelist with a genius IQ said he got hosed out of $15,500 by a pal who goes to Burning Man festival with him and his crew.

Leon Feingold, a Manhattan member of the brainiac club Mensa, said in 2012 he created a dues-paying group called New York Dangerous that annually sets up camp at the psychedelic drug and art festival in the Nevada desert.

But even with all of Feingold’s smarts, a member of New York Dangerous managed to pull a fast one on him, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Feingold (photo) says in the lawsuit that in 2016 Adam Librot hijacked New York Dangerous, and created websites for the group without permission.

When Feingold and others in leadership roles told Librot to hand over control of the domains, he initially agreed but never carried through, the lawsuit says.

Instead Librot set up a PayPal account to collect all the membership fees for their annual trip to the desert. In total, Librot collected $20,000 in dues from about 100 members.

Feingold said Librot was one of the camp leaders for New York Dangerous, but the group makes decisions collaboratively. He said the group said no to most of Librot’s planned purchases — like a piano — but he bought them anyway.

Out of the $20,000, Librot was only approved to spend $5,000 on Burning Man expenses, Feingold says.

“It was an awful situation. He completely went renegade and did his own thing,” said Feingold, a lawyer and real estate broker who preaches about the pleasures of having multiple romantic partners. After the 2016 festival, which took place in early September, Feingold asked Librot for the remainder of the money, about $15,500. The lawsuit says Librot refused and pocketed it. “At some point, he drained the account, put it into his own personal account and disappeared,” Feingold told the Daily News. Librot, a 39-yea r-old consultant, said Feingold’s pants must be on fire because his version of events are far from the truth.

He said he spent all of the membership money on Burning Man expenses for New York Dangerous.

Librot said, he spent three weeks preparing the camp for the 2016 festival and used $2,000 of his own money. He said he never asked for his cash back.

“I’d rather give up a few thousand dollars than engage in the hassle of trying to get it back. But he wouldn’t let me walk away,” Librot said of Feingold.

Librot said Feingold “enjoys the spotlight,” noting he posed as Christ in a recreation of the Last Supper at the fest last year.

Feingold only asked for the money when his fianceé was diagnosed with cancer, Librot added. “It’s a real tragic story. However, it doesn’t entitle him to demand camp dues back,” Librot said.