Justin Wingerter

Neal Smith II, left, and Harold 鈥淏utch鈥� Gorden were best friends for decades. (Courtesy Justin Smith)

“Slap in the face”: Man avoids prison after taking millions from friend鈥檚 family

March 27, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

A Castle Rock man will not go to prison for聽embezzling millions of dollars聽from his best friend鈥檚 company, despite the desires of his godsons and a judge for a harsher sentence.

The Plateful app allows users to scan 1 million foods, then assigns those foods both a nutritional value and an 鈥渆co value.鈥� (Justin Wingerter/BusinessDen)

Bankrupt nutrition app $32M in debt as ex-employees sue for salaries

March 20, 2024 at 3:04 p.m.

Opsis Health, of Highlands Ranch, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy March 15, less than one year after it launched Plateful, the company鈥檚 signature phone app.

Empower accuses rival of spying and poaching its financial advisers

March 19, 2024 at 5:21 p.m.

Allegations of corporate espionage and client poaching are spelled out in a lengthy lawsuit that Empower filed in Denver federal court March 13 against a baker鈥檚 dozen of former advisors...

Frank Schultz and Terry Papay founded Tavern Hospitality Group. (BusinessDen file photo)

Tavern restaurant group selling properties, closing locations as owners split

February 28, 2024 at 3:03 p.m.

As its mother-and-son founders untangle their finances and go their separate ways, Tavern Hospitality Group has closed its namesake restaurants and is selling real estate.

Jonathan Dow reads at the Tattered Cover on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)

Tattered Cover lost $340K in January, expects February losses

February 28, 2024 at 6:03 a.m.

Tattered Cover lost $340,000 last month and expects to remain in the red this month, a fiscal shortcoming that arrives as the bookseller is trying to chart a course to...

Attendees mill around ETHDenver 2023 at the National Western Center in Denver. (ETHDenver/Instagram)

Crypto convention sues Denver company over “subpar” show

February 21, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

An annual cryptocurrency and blockchain convention that will kick off its 2024 event Feb. 23, is suing the Denver trade show company that managed its 2023 convention.

The only branch of Solera National Bank is at 319 S. Sheridan Blvd. in Lakewood. (Justin Wingerter, BusinessDen)

Investor can probe Lakewood bank鈥檚 records over jet use by Nuggets superfan 鈥淩ed Pant Man,鈥� judge says

February 20, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

A local shareholder will examine the internal records of a single-branch bank in Lakewood to determine whether its chairman squandered the bank鈥檚 profits on a fleet of aircraft that he...

A boy reaches for a book on the top shelf in the children's section of the Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax Ave. in Denver on June 11, 2016. (Photo by Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post, file)

Tattered Cover CEO will be paid $120K despite predecessor鈥檚 protests

February 13, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Tattered Cover鈥檚 current CEO can be paid a salary of $120,000 this year, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled Monday, despite the objections of its former CEO.

Richardo鈥檚 is a coffee liqueur company based in Lyons (Provided by Richardo's Decaf Coffee Liqueur)

Liqueur makers in Lyons settle squabble over secret formula

February 14, 2024 at 11:16 a.m.

A spirited dispute between coffee liqueur makers in Lyons has ended with a whimper.

Joyride Brewing co-owner accused of theft countersues for $170K

February 12, 2024 at 11:53 a.m.

A minority owner of Joyride Brewing in Edgewater says accusations that he misappropriated $1 million from the brewery are frivolous, so he is countersuing it for $170,000.

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