Leader of annual SantaCon pub crawl in NYC a conman, feds charge 58.1%
New York Daily News - By Molly Crane-Newman - 4/15/2026, 5:33 PM
Negativity Bias 71.7% - Appeal to Emotion 43.4% - Framing Effect 39.1%
SantaCon is led by a conman who siphoned more than a million dollars raised for charity during the yearly crimson plague of drunken revelry — a grinch who “stole Christmas from tens of thousands of victims,” federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Wednesday. Suspected Bad Santa Stefan Pildes pleaded not guilty to wire fraud in Manhattan... more