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Longtime CT Eye Doctor Sentenced For Bogus Brain Scan Scheme Longtime CT Eye Doctor Sentenced For Bogus Brain Scan Scheme
Longtime CT Eye Doctor Sentenced For Bogus Brain Scan Scheme A longtime ophthalmologist in Connecticut will have to pay back over $1 million and spend time in federal lockup after confessing that he ordered unnecessary brain scans to line his pockets. Hartford County resident Donald Salzberg, age 69, of Avon, was sentenced to one year in prison in Boston federal court on Thursday, May 9. It came nearly two years after Salzberg, who operated Salzberg, M.D. on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford for nearly 40 years, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and receive kickbacks. Earlier Report: Popular CT Eye Doctor Admits To Tak…

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by Michael Mashburn
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CT Man Sentenced For Fentanyl Distribution CT Man Sentenced For Fentanyl Distribution
CT Man Sentenced For Fentanyl Distribution A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, federal officials said. Kyle Pitts, aka "Bark," age 37, of West Hartford, was sentenced on Monday, Nov. 1, to prison time followed by three years of supervised release, said Leonard C Boyle, acting US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. According to court documents and statements made in court, in the summer of 2020, Hartford Police learned that Pitts and others were selling fentanyl and that Pitts was using his apartment on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford to store the drug.  Between A…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Award-Winning Dairy Farm Opens West Hartford Ice Cream Shop Award-Winning Dairy Farm Opens West Hartford Ice Cream Shop
Award-Winning Dairy Farm Opens West Hartford Ice Cream Shop A historic Connecticut dairy farm has opened a new ice cream shop in West Hartford Center. Arethusa Farm Dairy is located at the former site of the Toy Chest on Farmington Avenue. It all started in the late 1860s: Webster Family named their Litchfield farm "Arethusa," after a little pink orchid that grew on the swamp. They delivered milk and dairy products to locals for decades. In 1999, sold the farmland to new owners, who went on to establish their own award-winning dairy herd. Arethusa began bottling its milk and selling products in 2009, and a few years later, opened stores in Bantam …

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by Cecilia Levine