Celebrate Santa, a for-profit convention sponsor for the professional Santa Claus industry, is fracturing amidst allegations of fraud and mismanagement of funds. “Santa Joe” Moore and his wife, “Mrs. Mary Claus” Moore, owners of the Jolly Old Elf Company and Celebrate Santa, are documented in a web of conflicting stories that have led to mass defections of all Celebrate Santa’s 2009 chairpersons.

At their first annual convention held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in March 2009 Celebrate Santa sold engraved plaques featuring the “Santa Claus Oath”, promising proceeds from the sales to be donated to a national charity, Santa-America. To date many of the plaques bought and paid for have not been delivered. The vendor supplying the plaques for Celebrate Santa has not been fully paid and Santa-America has seen nothing of the revenue which is estimated to be more than $6000.

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