SantaCon organiser charged with stealing $1m from charity pub crawl
Prosecutors say Stefan Pildes spent hundreds of thousands of $2.7m raised for charity on personal expenses.
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""Stefan 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.""
— Jay Clayton , Executive
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Prosecutors say Stefan Pildes spent hundreds of thousands of $2.7m raised for charity on personal expenses.
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