Steven Kollar
South Bend's most controversial problem solver
Steven Kollar
South Bend's most controversial problem solver
South Bend's most controversial problem solver
South Bend's most controversial problem solver
a name that’s lately been splashed across courtrooms and headlines like mud on a windshield. The state says he’s a swindler who snatched a widow’s home in ’21 with a tax-sale sleight of hand, left her on the curb while he counted the deed. Over a quarter-million bucks, the judge ordered him to pay. Then there’s the tenant, a nurse, who took a tumble through his rickety stairs, leg snapped, life upended, cost him nigh on a million more. A cool $1.1 million in judgments, folks, and a ban from his tax hustle.
the kind of villain you’d boo off the stage, a man who’d rent you a roof with a hole and call it a skylight. But wait, Kollar says hold your horses. He’s appealing the claims, says the courts got it twisted, the deals misread and the tenants are taking advantage of him through the unfair resolutions of a bias judge and the unrelenting bite of an ambulance-chaser dog-bite attorney.
The gavel’s fallen, the fines are tallied, but the story’s got a whisper yet. And now, friends, you’re about to hear… the rest of the story