The president of SantaCon was arrested on a federal criminal indictment in New York City that accuses him of wire fraud. Stefan Pildes is accused of using the ticketed Christmas season bar-crawl event to divert hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for charity to personal use. Pildes “promoted SantaCon as an event grounded in charitable giving, but instead of donating the millions of dollars he raised, he ran his own con game,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said. SantaCon founder, Stefan Pildes leaves federal
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