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Is this the "con" in SantaCon?
The president of SantaCon was arrested today on federal charges accusing him of diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for charity to personal expenses, according to CNBC.
Prosecutors allege that Stefan Pildes used funds from the ticketed holiday bar crawl, which claims to raise money for charity, for a range of purchases, including home renovations, luxury vacations, and a Manhattan apartment.
According to the indictment, only a small portion of the roughly $2.7 million raised through SantaCon was donated to charity.
A Gothamist analysis from 2023 found that "the organization raised $1.4 million through SantaCon programming from late 2014 through the end of 2022, and that less than a fifth of that money has gone to registered nonprofits."
11 comments:
Absolutely no surprise there. They should have audited him on a yearly basis.
shocking!!
SHOCKER!!
Good riddance. Screw that guy, and screw SantaCon. What a fucking nuisance.
so surprised 🙄
Only the Trump family can get away with this
Maybe some corporate interest can buy the rights going forward. Sanitize and corporatize the life out of this shit already. It's what it deserves.
does santa deliver lumps of coal to prisons? asking for a ... lol ...
Should we assume that will be the end of Santacon?
In this environment? Throw in a few sexual assault charges and he could run for office. It would be good to be rid of him and his ill-behaved followers for sure.
Perhaps Christmas will arrive early this year with the hopeful news of its subsequent, indefinite closure. Good riddance to the grift and utter annoyance of this massively stupid phenomenon.
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