Lawsuits unmask businessman’s lavish lifestyle using millions owed for PPE

This story first ran on BusinessDen.com, a BizWest news partner.

Former clients of Denver businessman Steve Bachar are turning up emptied bank accounts as they try to recoup millions of dollars paid for pandemic-related personal protective equipment that they claim he spent on Caribbean vacations, a Cherry Creek furniture store owned by his wife and a Country Club mansion.

Bachar, a former Moye White lawyer and one-time Bill Clinton staffer, set up a company in 2020 to procure PPE equipment and landed contracts with DaVita and LA-based Future Health Co. for $2.4 million and $2.7 million, respectively.

Bachar previously tried to turn around…