{"id":199206,"date":"2026-04-16T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199206\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:10:10","slug":"santacon-organizer-charged-with-stealing-1-million-in-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199206\/","title":{"rendered":"SantaCon organizer charged with stealing $1 million in funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s \u201cMorning People,\u201d Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter discuss the fraud case charging the lead organizer of SantaCon NYC with pocketing $1 million in funds, if Gen Z is leaving after-work drinks behind and whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani will attend next month&#8217;s Met Gala.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SHOW<\/p>\n<p>Wake up with Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter to hear the latest on the news and topics New Yorkers are talking about. Watch or listen every Monday through Friday for daily discussions, as well as interviews with notable people who may or may not like waking up early.<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO LISTEN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/morning-people\/id1878479101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">APPLE PODCASTS\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5VztOnuMEiZIGl7bOsByXR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/morning-people\/PC:1001114025?part=ug-desktop&amp;corr=170319850848145225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PANDORA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLJa4BTbrF33nnPAPsKv8rIm1X8XG-Ng3S&amp;si=SKr3yQIeHmhNeNqB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YOUTUBE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On today\u2019s \u201cMorning People,\u201d Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter discuss the fraud case charging the lead organizer of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9369,25,66058,9,24,12,56,63,65,64,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-199206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-podcasts","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-morning-people","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}