“Local groups receive $12,000 from festival” reported The Aspen Times in summer of 1985. The Snowmass Hot Air Balloon Festival generated $12,000 for Pitkin County Air Rescue as well as Mountain Rescue. Receiving checks of.
A lawsuit levied by daughter of the late Nancy Pfister alleging self-dealing and racketeering by a prominent Aspen law firm and other defendants is scheduled to go to a jury trial in November.
Nikos Hecht in a Pitkin County Jail mugshot from his domestic violence arrest in July 2015. A booking mugshot from his latest arrest was not available Friday.
Clad only in his underwear and high on drugs, a local developer and hedge fund manager held a gun to his head Thursday night outside a relative’s home near Aspen and threatened to kill himself, according to police reports.
Nikos Hecht, 50, admitted to police he’d consumed alcohol, marijuana and cocaine half-an-hour before driving his Range Rover to the home and crashing it into another car parked in the driveway. He then allegedly began banging on a front window with a bloody hand while holding the black Beretta handgun to his head and demanding to speak to a person inside, the reports state.