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Anonymous ID: c13582 Oct. 28, 2021, 5:30 a.m. No.14871536   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/25/steve-bachar-felony-theft-fraud-charges/

Denver attorney Steve Bachar wanted on felony theft, fraud charges

Bachar previously accused of mishandling $2 million set aside to purchase masks, gowns during pandemic

A Denver attorney who last year was accused of mishandling nearly $2 million set aside to purchase masks and gowns during the coronavirus pandemic was charged with unrelated felony financial crimes last week and is now wanted by authorities.

A warrant was issued Oct. 18 for Steve Bachar, 56, on charges of securities fraud and theft. He is accused of stealing between $100,000 and $1 million, as well as lying to an investor, according to a criminal complaint filed against him by the Denver District Attorney’s Office.

The crimes are alleged to have happened between Oct. 13, 2017, and Aug. 8, 2018, according to the complaint.

“Steven Charles Bachar, in connection with the offer, sale or purchase of a security, directly or indirectly, unlawfully, feloniously and willfully made an untrue statement of material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made… not misleading,” the complaint reads.

Additional details on the allegations were not immediately available.

“These are outrageous, unfounded and false accusations,” Bachar said in a texted statement Monday. “…I am pleased that we are now engaged in a process that will let the facts come to light.”

A spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney’s Office declined to comment.

Bachar is also under investigation from the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, according to information reviewed by the Denver Post. The agency oversees discipline for attorneys in Colorado. Attorney Regulation Counsel Jessica Yates declined to confirm or deny the investigation Monday.

Bachar was last year accused by two companies of mishandling nearly $2 million earmarked for personal protective equipment purchases during the pandemic.

Bachar had promised Denver-based DaVita Inc. that he would provide 4,200 cases of N95 masks in exchange for $2.4 million in April 2020, but then never provided the masks and failed to return the company’s initial payment of $604,000, according to that lawsuit, filed in October

Another company, The Future Health Company, filed a complaint in December that said Bachar failed to pay them $1.2 million for 3 million medical gowns that Future Health sent to the state of Wisconsin.

This summer, Bachar was ordered to pay the two companies nearly $4.5 million in two default civil judgments. A spokeswoman for The Future Health Company said Monday that the company has not received any money from Bachar, despite the judgment.

Bachar previously worked with Sen. John Hickenlooper, serving as counsel on Hickenlooper’s campaign for Denver mayor and on his transition team, according to a news release that detailed his career when he joined the Denver law firm Moye White in 2015. The firm said Bachar was a member of its business section before leaving in August 2017.

Bachar also served in the White House under President Bill Clinton and in the Treasury Department before he moved to Denver.

Anonymous ID: c13582 Oct. 28, 2021, 5:33 a.m. No.14871540   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1612

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/27/man-who-lived-at-ohare-for-3-months-without-detection-cleared-of-trespassing-charges/

Orange man who lived at O’Hare for 3 months without detection cleared of trespassing charges

A man who was discovered after living at O’Hare International Airport for three months without detection was cleared of a related criminal charge this week in a case that raised security questions at one of the world’s busiest airports.

A Cook County judge found Aditya Singh, 37, not guilty on Tuesday of felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport.

Judge Adrienne Davis made the ruling in a directed verdict without the defense having to put on a case. Singh still faces a separate escape charge related to an alleged violation of electronic monitoring while he was free on bond earlier this year. That case is due in court Friday.

After coming to the United States nearly six years ago to complete a master’s degree program, Singh boarded a Chicago-bound flight from Los Angeles on Oct. 19, 2020, to begin his journey home to India.

He never made it.

Prosecutors said Singh told authorities that the coronavirus pandemic left him too afraid to fly and so he instead remained in the airport, often relying on the kindness of strangers to buy him food.

Singh hid out in the airport’s secured terminal area with access to shops, food and public bathrooms until his Jan. 16 arrest after two United Airlines employees asked to see his identification. He showed them an airport ID badge that an operations manager had reported missing in late October 2020, prosecutors said.

His arrest made national headlines, with comparisons to the 2004 Tom Hanks movie “The Terminal.”

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-acquits-man-who-said-he-lived-chicago-airport-3-n1282611

Anonymous ID: c13582 Oct. 28, 2021, 6:22 a.m. No.14871673   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1709

The Vatican has abruptly canceled the planned live broadcast of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis. The Vatican press office provided no explanation for why the live broadcast of Biden’s visit had been trimmed to just the arrival of his motorcade in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace. Cancelled was the live coverage of Biden, the second Catholic U.S. president, actually greeting Francis and the two men starting their private talks. The audience was being closely monitored since U.S. bishops are due to meet in a few weeks for their annual fall convention. One of the agenda items inspired by conservatives who contend that Biden’s support for abortion rights should disqualify him from receiving Communion.