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Key FactsSantaCon Founder Arrested for Charity Fund Fraud
Apr 15, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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- Stefan Pildes faces charges for diverting more than a million dollars meant for charity through SantaCon events.
- The indictment details expenditures on upscale vacations, a Manhattan luxury apartment, and renovations to a New Jersey lakefront home.
- SantaCon raised at least $2.7 million between 2019 and 2024, but prosecutors claim over half was funneled into a slush fund.
- Pildes pleaded not guilty to wire fraud and was released on a $300,000 bond following his arraignment.
"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," US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a press release.— Jay Clayton, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a press release about fraud allegations against Stefan Pildes, the SantaCon founder
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