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Bad Santa: SantaCon Organizer Stole Christmas, Spent $1.3M ‘Charity’ Cash On Lux Life, Feds Say
The organizer behind SantaCon stole more than $1 million meant for charity and spent it on lavish personal vacations, luxury properties, and a Michelin-star meal, federal authorities said Wednesday, April 15.
Stefan Pildes, 50, of Hewitt, NJ, pitched the annual bar crawl as a charity event, with proceeds going “directly to Santa’s charity drive.” With that pitch, he raised $2.7 million between 2019 and 2024, according to the feds.
But more than half of that money landed in an account belonging to “Creative Opportunities Group,” which Pildes controlled and used “freely to finance various per…
Fyre Festival 2 Postponed Due To Lack Of Venue
Anyone with a craving for a bland cheese sandwich is not going to like this news.
Fyre Festival 2, the sequel to the infamous failed music festival that promised luxury but instead delivered tents and stale cheese sandwiches and sent Billy McFarland, a Short Hills native, to prison, has been postponed, organizers said on Wednesday, April 16.
The event was scheduled to take place in Mexico at the end of May, only they were unable to find a venue. No musical guests had been announced, though tickets went on sale anyway, starting at $1,400. Top tickets were sold for $1 million with a promise o…
