Santacon NYC is back, under new management, after its former organizer was charged with fraud
Source: Business Insider ·
SantaCon returns to NYC under a new company that's promising full charity donations after longtime organizer Stefan Pildes was charged with fraud.
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Revelers fuel up on $1.50 pizza before taking to the streets at SantaCon NYC in 2025.Jeremy Weine/Getty ImagesSantaCon is returning to NYC months after its former organizer, Stefan Pildes, was charged with wire fraud.Prosecutors allege Pildes "misappropriated and stole" more than half of the millions SantaCon raised for charity.The bar crawl is promising transparency under new management run by Pildes' longtime collaborator.SantaCon, which draws tens of thousands of drunken revelers and their bodily fluids to the streets of New York City each year, is coming back under new management.The notorious bar crawl returns eight months after federal prosecutors charged its longtime organizer, Stefan Pildes, with diverting more than half the millions SantaCon raised for charity to a "slush fund" he spent on lakefront property, luxury vacations, and other personal ventures.Pildes was president of Participatory Safety, the registered nonprofit which holds the SantaCon trademark and served as…