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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Prosecutors say Stefan Pildes spent hundreds of thousands of $2.7m raised for charity on personal expenses.
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