SantaCon promoter arrested for charity fraud, New York federal prosecutors say

Cristiana Gigina

The president of SantaCon was arrested on Wednesday on a federal criminal indictment accusing him of using the ticketed Christmas bar-crawl event to divert hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for charity to personal use, federal prosecutors in New York said. The defendant, Stefan Pildes, spent "SantaCon proceeds on extensive renovations to a lakefront property in New Jersey, concert tickets, luxury vacations, extravagant meals, and a luxury vehicle," according to the U.S. Attorney's

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