Disbarred Denver attorney Steven Bachar died Friday at the Rifle Correctional Center, where he was serving a three-year sentence for defrauding an investor of $125,000, according to the Garfield County Coroner’s Office.
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Bachar, 58, apparently had a medical event and became unresponsive, according to the coroner’s office. First aid and CPR were given and emergency medical responders arrived at the scene, but Bachar died at the prison.
Bachar’s cause and manner of death are still pending, but it appears to be “most consistent with a natural death,” Garfield County Coroner Robert Glassmire said in a statement.
The Department of Corrections confirmed Bachar’s death on Friday but declined to release further information other than that his death was under investigation, “as is the normal course of action,” spokesperson Alondra Gonzalez said in an email.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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