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Development a high priority for Trumbull’s new first selectman BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

s is the case with many of Connecticut’s municipal leaders, newly elected Trumbull First Selectman Vicki Tesoro is facing a moving target when it comes to budgeting. “We had a very difficult year last year,” Tesoro, who was then on the town’s Board of Finance, said in her Town Hall office on Main Street. Thanks to the months-long struggle to get a state budget passed, “We didn’t have our final numbers out until October. Our mill rate is supposed to be set by May. We spent most of the year just guessing.” Gov. Dannel Malloy’s latest budget proposal would among other things cut $97 million in municipal aid from the original 2018-19 budget passed last year. Tesoro noted that in the original budget, Trumbull was to receive about $800,000 in state aid. Tesoro delivered her own $170 million budget proposal on Feb. 10, the day it was due. Under that budget, which must be passed first by the board of finance and then by the town council, residents would see a 1.95 percent tax increase. The budget also gives the board of education, which had sought a 4.2 percent increase for the upcoming fiscal year, a 3.1 percent increase, which Tesoro said comes to about $3.1 million. Town expenditures have » » TRUMBULL

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Lisa Maronian at her Sweet Lisa’s Exquisite Cakes shop in Greenwich. Photo by Phil Hall.

Fairfield leader looks to build town’s commercial base

BY PHIL HALL phall@westfairin.com

airfield First Selectman Mike Tetreau has a major problem with the level of state aid that his town receives from Hartford. “Twenty-four months ago, the town of Fairfield was receiving about $9 million in state aid,” he told the Business Journal. “That has been cut progressively down to the most recent budget that was passed to $4.7 million, and now it has been reduced by another $1 million since that passing. The gover-

nor’s most recent proposal that came out Feb. 7 had it cut down to $1 million.” The state also has eliminated Fairfield’s Educational Cost Sharing funding and funding for the payment in lieu of taxes or PILOT program, which help offset the lack of property tax revenue from Sacred Heart University and Fairfield University. “This is making us more reliant on property taxes than ever before and putting the pressure on the town to fund public education, which is 65 percent of our budget,” Tetreau said. “The state has an obligation to fund public education. Not the towns,

the state. The state is abdicating its responsibility.” Tetreau, a Democrat who has served as first selectman since June 2011, has grown frustrated with how the state legislature functions. “It is difficult to plan a town budget when you are seeing the state budget planned one year at a time based on whatever plan they can duct-tape together and get agreement from whatever the sources are,” he said. “The most recent biennial budget did not address it. It was one big Band-Aid designed to get us through 24 months and last» » FAIRFIELD

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wenty-five years ago, Lisa Maronian conceived the idea of opening a bakery in Greenwich that focused exclusively on designer cakes for special occasions. To her surprise, the insurance agent assigned to handle her new business was skeptical. “He said, ‘Oh, you’re going to do a specialty bakery. What does that entail?’ she recalled. “And I said, ‘There are a lot of great bakeries, but I don’t want to be another bakery. I want to do something unusual. I want to create really interesting cakes for different occasions in peoples’ lives.’ And he said, ‘Oh, I don’t know if that’s going to work out. You may want to do a retail thing as well.’ And I was like, ‘No, I really don’t want to do that. This is where my heart is.’” Despite her insurance agent’s misgivings, Sweet Lisa’s Exquisite Cakes opened in 1993. Maronian did not hear from the insurance agent until her first anniversary in business approached. “A year later, I got a letter from him in the mail that said, ‘Congratulations, you made it. Ninety percent of businesses fail in their first year,’” she said with a loud laugh. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I guess he had no faith in me at all.’ Looking back, I should have framed that letter, because 25 years later, here we are.” Maronian, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, also received a degree in pastry arts from the International Pastry Arts Center in New York City. She worked as a pastry chef at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York and L’auberge de France in Belleville, Ontario, before an inheritance from her late father enabled her to become an entrepreneur. She launched the business with her husband Stephen, also a Culinary Institute of America graduate and an executive chef at The Milbrook Club in Greenwich. Although Stephen remains co-owner of the bakery, he is now an executive chef at Flik International, a corporate dining and hospitality services group in Rye Brook. Sweet Lisa’s began in a subleased space in the basement of a Greenwich Avenue store, and initially it seemed the pessimistic insurance agent’s doubts were justified. “We started doing little cakes, plus restaurant desserts to

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NEWS Copy and Video Editor • Peter Katz Reporters • Ryan Deffenbaugh, Aleesia Forni, Bill Heltzel, Phil Hall, Kevin Zimmerman, Georgette Gouveia, Mary Shustack Lisa Maronian, owner of Sweet Lisa’s Exquisite Cakes in Greenwich. Photo by Phil Hall.

make ends meet,” Maronian said. Business slowly began to pick up via word-of-mouth referrals. By 1997, Maronian moved to a onetime residential property on Field Road in Cos Cob that had been transformed into a commercial florist operation. Maronian said Sweet Lisa’s business waxes and wanes during the course of the year, with 25 to 30 cakes baked per week in the slower months and 50 to 60 during the more active seasons. “January through March is a down time for us, and we have five to six people working here. “From April to June, we have eight to 12 people. I call May the trifecta because it’s Communion, graduation and weddings. Summer tapers off, although there are a lot of weddings and things gear up again in the fall for weddings and the holidays.” Thursdays and Fridays are the baking days at Sweet Lisa’s, with Saturdays devoted to decoration and deliveries. The business is closed on Sundays and Mondays, although Maronian takes advantage of the quiet Mondays to catch up on paperwork. Over the years, the company signed up country clubs and wedding venues as clients, and they recommend Sweet Lisa’s for the pastry portion of special events

hosted at their locations. Even the Food Network got wind of her baking skills, inviting her in 2000 to be a contestant on one of its “Food Network Challenge” competition shows, for which she won a silver medal. Maronian welcomes assignments that mix baking with engineering. One of her proudest achievements was a three-tier carousel-inspired cake created for a batmitzvah that had sugar-sculpted horses circling on an electric turntable. She noted that some cake concepts require more than a little extra planning, especially when asymmetrical designs create an uneven balance of cake. “When you look at a high-heel shoe, the heel is very, very, very delicate,” she said. “You cannot make that out of cake. So, construction comes into play. We need to make the heel itself out of wood and then make a wooden structure to support the cake. Another customer wanted a martini glass as a cake. But when you think about that, the weight is all on the top. To do that out of cake, it is very, very difficult. We had to put up a PVC pipe and a flange at the base of the cake. Then we built the base of the cake and the stem out of sugar and used wood at the top to support the cake.” The more popular cake designs have fallen into familiar patterns based on celebrants. Children’s cakes often feature Disney or television cartoon characters, while

women order cakes with floral designs or recreations of high-ticket fashion items and men like to have their favorite sports teams’ logos in icing and sugar. Maronian prices her items at a $100 minimum for the more basic cakes that can serve 10 to 15 people, while larger and more elaborate designs can start at $500 and go higher. A recent cake designed to resemble the client’s sprawling Greenwich home was priced at $1,500. However, not everyone can enjoy Maronian’s creations, and she goes to great lengths to be cognizant of the dietary restrictions of clients. “We are not a nut-free facility,” she said. “Many things we make do not have nuts in them, but we take the utmost care and I always tell the customer in advance. It is a very tricky with gluten-free, nutfree and dairy-free, so I always try to warn them in advance. But people with the allergies are extremely sensitive to what they eat and are usually on top of it.”

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Nearly $400M in the hole, Connecticut to continue film incentive BY ALEXANDER SOULE Hearst Connecticut Media Group

he state wants to keep the cameras rolling. Under new Connecticut estimates, a film and digital production tax credit cost the state’s budget $393 million in direct revenue between 2006 and 2014 in the form of tax credits claimed by companies and direct spending by the state supporting their growth. It marks the first of planned annual estimates by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development to itemize the benefits and costs of the slate of tax incentives it issues annually, which are designed to spur investment in varying industries, from entertainment production to manufacturing to insurance. Despite the direct costs to the state’s budget of the film and digital tax credit program — more than $46 million a year on average since 2006 — DECD recommends keeping the program intact. It is not a recommendation it extends to the full menu of tax credits currently under its stewardship, however; the department says Connecticut should jettison a manufacturing facilities tax credit on grounds the incentive has generated too few jobs to justify the $23 million cost to the state budget over two decades through 2014. Speaking in Manchester last month, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy defended the state’s policy of focusing investment dollars on targeted industries. He spoke during a tour of ACMT Manufacturing, which received incentives to add 70 jobs under the state’s Manufacturing Innovation Fund. “Making investments — it’s hard when you are making them, but the payoff is massive, and that’s what we are seeing,” Malloy said.

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With the state itemizing only the direct impact of business tax credits on the budget’s bottom line, and not the ripple effect of spending they create, the ultimate payoff for incentives makes for a hazier estimate. In the case of the film and digital tax credit, Malloy’s administration believes the state is still coming out ahead. The tax credit has helped support $122 million in annual payroll maintained by tax credit recipients on average, and another $38 million in spending on varying products and services that generates sales taxes and supports jobs at those vendors. At income tax rates between 5.5 percent and 6.5 percent that the majority of the industry’s workers pay in Connecticut, the state would recoup more than $7 million in income taxes annually along with roughly $2.5 million in sales taxes produced via direct purchases by tax credit recipients. That would cover only 23 cents of every dollar the state pays out in tax credits, however, producing an average annual deficit of $43.7 million. More of that gap is made up in other ways, including additional spending by employees and vendors that ripples out through the economy. On those merits, the Department of Economic and Community Development recommends keeping the film and digital tax credits in place on the basis of Blue Sky Studios alone, which has averaged $13.5 million in incentives annually since moving its digital animation studio to Greenwich in 2008 from White Plains. Those tax credits have supported some 500 employees’ work on a movie pipeline that has produced two features each in the “Ice Age” and “Rio” series and others like “The Peanuts Movie” and

“Ferdinand” in late 2017. Other entities maintain large numbers of Connecticut jobs in part or wholly due to the credits, including NBC and WWE in Stamford and ESPN in Bristol. The three film tax credit programs have produced ancillary investments in educational programs at colleges to train people to work in film, television and digital animation industries, Economic and Community Development staff notes in the department’s annual report released in February.

LOOKING AHEAD

Blue Sky’s future in Greenwich is an open question, however, after parent 21st Century Fox took Walt Disney’s $60 billion offer for entertainment divisions including Blue Sky, with the deal still in the process of being finalized. Blue Sky traces its own lineage to a team of animators who worked on the Disney feature “Tron” released in 1982. Speaking on Feb. 6 to investment analysts, Disney CEO Bob Iger did not provide guidance on how it would go about integrating Fox studios with its own, which include Blue Sky’s larger rivals Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation. Iger did note that “what we’re buying here is significant production capabilities and, with that, the talent to produce on our behalf. We will, as a company when combined, have far more … production capability to flow into our traditional distribution businesses — that being TV channels and the motion picture exhibition business — as well as the capability to create product for our direct-to-consumer businesses.” Alex.Soule@scni.com; 203-842-2545; @casoulman. This report was first published in Hearst Connecticut newspapers on Feb. 11.

Opening the borders of health care BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

he announcement this month of a collaboration agreement between the Western Connecticut Health Network and New York’s Northwell Health is the latest evidence of a growing trend for players in the health care space: Look for opportunities to join forces or risk being left behind. “This is absolutely indicative of a trend across the whole country,” said Keith Safian, CEO of Safian & Co., a hospital and health services consultancy in Armonk, New York. “In my view, it’s the main driver in the business right now.” Safian knows whereof he speaks: He’s the former president and CEO of Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, from which he resigned in 2014 after 25 years in the post when the community hospital was acquired by the North Shore-LIJ Health System, which rebranded as Northwell Health in 2016. “I think this is a brilliant move on the part of both organizations,” he said. “Western Connecticut has a wonderful reputation and is a strong market leader. Northwell (headquartered in New Hyde Park on Long Island) has no presence in Connecticut, but is already one of the largest nonprofit hospital systems in the country.” Northwell claims to be the largest private employer in New York state, with 63,500 employees, and the 14th largest health system in the U.S., with 23 hospitals and about 650 outpatient facilities in the metropolitan area, including Westchester County, where it also acquired Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco in 2014. The Western Connecticut Health Network comprises of Danbury, Norwalk and New Milford hospitals, which together employ about 6,300 people. It also encompasses 70 Western Connecticut Medical Group medical and subspecialty practices across 16 communities; the WCHN Biomedical Research Institute; and Western Connecticut Home Care, formerly the Danbury Visiting Nurse Association. The agreement allows the two systems to jointly explore developing clinical programs and services, collaborate in providing population health services, and leverage the expertise of each other’s health systems. The collaboration with Northwell will enable WCHN to increase access to high-quality, affordable care in the communities it serves in western Connecticut and adjacent counties in New York. In addition, Northwell will provide WCHN with access to its network of shared services, including purchasing channels, data analytics, supply-chain management expertise and workforce development opportunities available through its corporate university. The relationship is intended to enable WCHN to grow clinical and operational efficiencies, create clinical and professional development opportunities, and further strengthen its ability to deliver high-quality care and patient experience, according to WCHN President and CEO John Murphy.

“We are proactively managing our transition to value-based care by collaborating with local and regional organizations that share our vision and values,” he said in a statement. “Leveraging (Northwell’s) areas of expertise will enable us to sustain excellence and growth as the health care industry rapidly evolves.” Other recent WCHN collaborations include a partnership with the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and a cancer care partnership between Norwalk Hospital and New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. For Northwell Health, “Since we’re geographically contiguous and physically practice in each other’s area, we saw this as a great opportunity,” said Mark B. Schiffer, Northwell vice president of strategic alliances. Schiffer said talks between the two organizations began about 15 months ago. “We approached them and talked about what the

possibilities were and where we saw health care going in our region,” he said. “We began to explore whether there were opportunities to do things that would be mutually beneficial, and that ultimately led to the agreement.” Schiffer characterized the collaboration as a “move towards more value-based practice. which focuses on quality, safety, patient satisfaction and innovation.” The agreement, he added, is representative of a general move in health care from the feefor-service model to value-based standards. In the former, a service is provided and a fee paid, with little in the way of personal interaction. “More and more health systems and individual practices and hospitals are moving towards keeping people healthy rather than wait until they’re sick, and to demonstrate that quality of care in measurable ways,” Schiffer said. “Patient satisfaction can be measured through surveys, but there are also a multitude of other quality metrics that we follow.”

Schiffer said no money changed hands in the transaction and that WCHN and Northwell will continue to operate as independent health care networks, maintain their respective executive leadership teams and board governance structures and be responsible for their own operations, assets, liabilities, and finances. “This is purely a collaboration,” he said. Still, its ramifications could prove to be considerable. Anu Singh, a managing director at Kaufman Hall, a national management consultancy with a Wilton office, said the deal “is likely to cause more rethinking of historical geographic, network and service line boundaries” in the region. “This is similar to many other parts of the country where large organized systems of care are being developed and structured,” he said. “The participants in these arrangements include a variety of players, includ» » HEALTH CARE

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ed less than 90 days before they had to go back and modify it.” Still, Tetreau said of his town and its property tax level, “We’ve got the fifth lowest mill rate in Fairfield County. The towns below us are Darien, New Canaan, Westport and Greenwich. We want to keep it from going any higher than we can. In order to cut expenses significantly more, we have to cut services, and that decreases the value of the town. So, we are certainly not looking at doing that.” Rather than wait for new state support, Tetreau is focused on bringing a greater private-sector presence to Fairfield. The town is still reeling from General Electric’s relocation of its headquarters to Boston in 2016, which Tetreau called a “$2 million revenue hit we have to make up.” The town may need to rethink its zoning laws if it wants to bring in new business opportuni-

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increased by 1.79 percent this year, she said, with satisfaction of monies owed to its various departments, pensions and other debt services adding up to about $1.3 million. All such contracts and expenses are accounted for in her budget, she said. Trumbull’s total unassigned general fund balance stands at $21.1 million, which would represent 12.72 percent of its annual operating budget. “You can reduce expenses, raise taxes, or take money out of the general fund” to keep the budget in balance, she said. “And (dipping into) the general fund is a last resort.” Instead, Tesoro said that nearly all of Trumbull’s department heads had committed to keeping expenses as low as possible. “Most of them are very close to their numbers from last year,” she said, adding that no layoffs were in the works. The goal, she said, is to make Trumbull as self-sufficient as it can be. It’s a tall order, but one Tesoro and Economic and Community

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ties, he said. “Our focus is how to grow our grand list and how do we focus on economic development,” he said. “Especially our commercial base. Our commercial zone is about 4.5 percent of our land area and generates 10 percent of our tax revenue. That begs the question: is there something that we can do to strategically grow that percentage? That doesn’t mean growing it

everywhere and making everything commercial. But it does mean asking where can we develop more commercial business, or can we take what he have and make it more commercial?” With a glut of vacant office space in Fairfield County, Tetreau does not see new corporate complexes as a part of that commercial development. Still, he pointed to a pair of recently opened properties near the

Fairfield Metro train station, the Trademark Fairfield mixed-used development and the Orthopedics Specialty Group medical center, as commercial entities that enrich the town’s business environment and tax revenue stream. “The economy is driven by companies with under 500 employees,” he said. “We don’t need Amazon or the large companies to come out here. What we need is

Fairfield First Selectman Mike Tetreau with office intern Annabeth Gullo, a Sacred Heart University sophomore. Photo by Phil Hall.

Development Director Rina Bakalar believe can be accomplished through development. “The number one way to become self-sustainable,” she said, “is by growing your grand list.” The grand list is the aggregate valuation of taxable property within a given town. That list declined last year, Bakalar said. “If you don’t have projects in your pipeline, you’re not going to grow your grand list,” Bakalar said. Tesoro pointed to Henkel, which last month unveiled its second Trumbull research and development facility in what had been a long-vacant building, as an example of what she’s hoping to accomplish. “We want to fill our vacant spaces in a smart, safe manner that’s planned out properly.” That means striving to maintain an existing neighborhood’s character whenever possible, Bakalar said. Such was the case with an 8,500-square-foot urgent care office at 4950-5010 Main St. Following five years of controversy — developer Dr. Rahul Anand had threatened at one point to make it

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Trumbull First Selectman Vicki Tesoro. Photo by Kevin Zimmerman

small companies that are adding employees.” Tetreau has also teamed with Stamford Mayor David Martin, Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling, Greenwich First Selectman Peter Tesei and Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe in what is informally known as the “Fairfield County Five.” They have banded together to sell their section of the state to companies seeking to relocate within the tristate area. The quintet made one presentation to potential corporate residents last fall and plans another in the spring. “We’re a small state with 169 small towns and there is no county government,” Tetreau said. “We started marketing Fairfield County together so that we’re not in competition, but we are helping each other. We’re all Triple-A towns with good school systems. As a mix, we have everything you can want.” One potential wild card in Fairfield’s future is the fate of casino gambling in neighboring Bridgeport. Tetreau

said that while MGM Resorts has spoken about offering financial payouts to the communities surrounding Bridgeport if a casino resort opens there, he has yet to receive definitive details on that proposal. Farifield’s first selectman said that he is eager to hear specifics from the growing number of candidates for governor on how they would address economic development issues. “I’d like to hear if they have an approach. I am not going to ask if they have an answer for our fiscal crisis, but I’d like to hear if they have an approach to solving our fiscal crisis. I am not hearing enough of that talk.” “I’m an engineer at heart,” said Tetreau. “That’s what my college degree was in. And one of things I’ve learned is that you must define the problem correctly if you want to come up with the right answer. Otherwise, you come up with an answer to the wrong question, which doesn’t help.”

an affordable housing project if concessions could not be met — Bakalar said a compromise had recently been reached “that will fit in with the charm of the neighborhood.” In addition, a 10,000-square-foot medical building’s foundation has been laid at 123 Monroe Turnpike and an Educational Playcare is being built at 111 Merritt Blvd. All of those projects are filling formerly vacant spaces and are expected to open this year, Bakalar said. A 135,000-square-foot self-storage facility is to be built on the cul-de-sac Quarry Road, near Trumbull’s Bow Tie Marquis multiplex movie theater, with groundbreaking expected in the spring. “That will have a positive effect for businesses and residents both,” Bakalar said, “because it means cleaning up a cul-desac” that has been overgrown with weeds for years. She also reported “a lot of interest” in 48 Monroe Turnpike. Once the home of United Healthcare, it has stood empty since the company exited in 2015 in favor of more up-to-date accommo-

dations on Research Drive in Shelton. The 253,000-squarefoot space represents 51 percent of all the vacant space in town, Bakalar said. In the burgeoning Trumbull Center on White Plains Road, a long-awaited CVS is finally due to arrive later this year; Starbucks will also relocate there from farther up the same street. As for building a new senior center — a longtime pet project of Tesoro’s predecessor Tim Herbst, who stepped down from the first selectman’s office to run for governor this year — Tesoro said it was “in limbo. The council still needs a report from the building committee, which should happen in the next month or so.” She said she wasn’t convinced that its cost and size made the project feasible. The new first selectman said she and Bakalar were being “proactive, not reactive” when it comes to attracting and retaining business in Trumbull. “The two of us were out meeting somebody every day leading up to Christmas,” said Tesoro, who was sworn in on Dec. 4. “And that will continue.”

Wounded by paper cuts PRINTING GIANT, $1B IN DEBT, SEEKS BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION

BY BILL HELTZEL bheltzel@westfairinc.com

enveo Inc., one of the largest printing businesses in the world, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, citing $1 billion in debt and internet challenges that have wrecked its business model. “Negative industry trends” and an “unstainable capital structure” compelled the company to file for bankruptcy, according to an affidavit by Ayman Zameli, Cenveo’s executive vice president. But Brigade Capital Management LP, a creditor, has asked the court for an independent examiner to investigate “potential misconduct.” Cenveo and 35 affiliates filed for bankruptcy on Feb. 2 in White Plains, where the company’s Commercial Envelope Manufacturing subsidiary has an office. Cenveo is based in Stamford. Cenveo traces its roots back to an envelope manufacturer that was established in Denver in 1919. It has grown into a large, diversified printing company, booking nearly $1.6 billion in revenue last year. It makes 50 billion envelopes a year for direct mail campaigns, bills and wholesale customers. It is the nation’s fourth-largest commercial printer, producing catalogs, annual reports, brochures, comic books, magazines, specialty books and scholarly publications. It makes cash register receipt rolls and labels for packaging and pharmaceuticals. Cenveo has 39 manufacturing plants and it employs 5,200 people in the U.S. and another 1,380 abroad. From 2006 to 2013, Zameli said, the company acquired 16 companies. But in recent years it has been divesting, closing plants and

consolidating operations. Despite attempts to right-size, “The negative effects of the third and fourth quarter of 2017,” he said, “outweighed any cost savings.” The company blames its troubles on e-commerce, digital subscriptions and other technologies that are transforming the industry. As advertisers shift to electronic media, for instance, there is less demand for envelopes for mail campaigns. Lower magazine circulation has depressed printing revenue. In general, Zameli said, there is less need for paper products. As Cenveo has struggled, long-standing customers have begun to source some of their supplies to other manufacturers to reduce their risks, and they have imposed more onerous trade terms. Late last year, Cenveo began exploring its options, hiring Kirkland & Ellis for legal advice, Rothschild Inc. for investment banking and Zolfo Cooper for restructuring advice. Its largest unsecured claim is $105.3 million by Bank of New York Mellon. Cenveo negotiated a restructuring agreement with “first lien” creditors. Major creditors agreed to cut debt by about $700 million. The first lien lenders will receive nearly all of the equity in the reorganized company and new debt if the bankruptcy court approves the plan. Unsecured lenders will receive about 2.5 percent of what they are owed. The company has secured $290 million in debtor-in-possession financing to help it through the bankruptcy process. The plan will stabilize the company, Zameli said, and allow it to emerge from bankruptcy. Brigade, which holds $248 million in first- and second-lien notes, did not agree to the plan.

Three family members received about $80 million in compensation from 2005 to 2016, “an extraordinary amount,” Brigade says, “for a company of this size and in this industry.” Cenveo CEO Robert G. Burton Sr. also serves as chairman of the board and is the company’s largest individual shareholder, according to the company website. Cenveo’s president and the CEO’s son, Robert G. Burton Jr., is on the board. The company COO, Michael Burton, is a second son of the CEO. The Burtons and a family trust hold about 15 percent of the common stock. The family is the largest group of shareholders in Cenveo, according to its website. Brigade claims that Cenveo has leased a manufacturing facility and land with an entity owned and managed by the Burton family. And two of the board’s purportedly independent directors may not be truly independent, Brigade alleges. Susan Herbst, for instance, is president of the University of Connecticut, to which the Burtons have donated millions of dollars, including for the construction of the Burton Family Football Complex. Michael Burton captained the Huskies football team during his undergraduate years at UConn. That $2.5 million donation, however, was given in 2004 and Herbst became president in 2011. Mark J. Griffin, another company director, is founding headmaster of Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, to which the Burtons have donated money for housing and athletic facilities. Cenveo did not respond to a request for comment on Brigade’s allegations. Brigade has asked for a court hearing to consider the appointment of an examiner.

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TELES NAMED PRESIDENT OF DIAGEO BEER CO. USA

Nuno Teles has been named president, Diageo Beer Co. USA, effective March 1. Teles, who will report to Diageo North America President Deirdre Mahlan, joins the Norwalk company from Heineken USA, where he served as chief marketing officer beginning in 2014. Tom Day, Diageo sales officer and former president of Diageo Guinness USA, will continue in his advisory role as chairman of Diageo Beer Co. USA. Teles’ 14 years in the beer industry began at Scottish & Newcastle, followed by his move to Heineken in 2004, where he worked in such territories as Portugal, the Netherlands, Brazil and the U.S. His early career was spent working across a number of businesses, including Unilever and Lacoste.

LAWSUIT FILED TO BLOCK XEROX/FUJIFILM DEAL

Darwin Deason, the Dallas business executive and third-largest shareholder of Xerox Corp., filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York that seeks to block the Norwalkheadquartered company’s acquisition by Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp. Deason’s lawsuit was filed against the two companies plus the Xerox board of directors and Ursula M. Burns, Xerox’s former chairwoman and CEO. Deason, who sold his Affiliated Computer Services to Xerox in 2010 for $6.4 billion, claimed that the XeroxFujifilm transaction was “the result of an improper and fraudulently concealed ‘crown jewel’ lock-up agreement that Xerox entered into with Fuji 17 years ago, that was never disclosed to Xerox’s shareholders before the signing of the Xerox/Fuji transaction. Deason is seeking to void the transaction and terminate the joint venture between the companies. Earlier in the week,

Deason teamed with billionaire investor and fellow shareholder Carl Icahn in an open letter to Xerox shareholders that criticized the Fujifilm deal. “To put it simply, the current board of directors has overseen the systematic destruction of Xerox, and, unless we do something, this latest Fuji scheme will be the company’s final death knell,” they wrote. “We urge you — our fellow shareholders — do not let Fuji steal this company from us. There is still tremendous opportunity for us to realize value on our own if we bring in the right leadership.” Xerox responded to Deason’s lawsuit with a statement that dismissed the litigation as being without value. “It is unfortunate that Mr. Deason is seeking to interfere with Xerox shareholders’ right to decide and is relying on meritless legal claims,” the company said. “Xerox has fully disclosed the joint venture agreements, and the company will respond to Mr. Deason’s legal claims through the appropriate legal channels in due course.”

BAKERY IN WILTON CLOSES; BLAMES BUILDING CONDITION

The Pastry Hideaway, a family-owned artisan bakery in Wilton that opened last May, announced that it has closed at least temporarily because of what it says are problems with the building it occupies. In a message posted on the bakery’s Facebook page, owner Pamela Graham said that the 126 Old Ridgefield Road store would not be serving customers for the foreseeable future “due to the poor condition of the building and the concern for the health of our employees and customers.” The bakery’s telephone number was disconnected and Graham did not respond to an interview request sent via email. The Pastry Hideaway was the second bakery at the Old Ridgefield Road location to close within a four-year period. The Green Leaf Organic Bakery and Café closed in January 2014 after less than two years in business.

Peter Greenberg, owner of Able Construction, bought the 2.2-acre property for $1.35 million in 2014. Several residents have repeatedly voiced objections to the development, primarily over concerns about increased traffic. A date for a planning and zoning commission hearing on the proposal has yet to be set.

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131 Danbury Road in Wilton.

WILTON BUILDING SOLD FOR $9.2M

GHP Office Realty has sold its commercial property at 131 Danbury Road in Wilton for $9.2 million, the company announced on Feb. 12. Built in 1960, the two-story, 52,500-squarefoot office and flex property is 96 percent leased, according to GHP, with 90 percent of the building occupied by TracyLocke, a marketing design division of Omnicom Group Inc. Enterprise RentA-Car, its other tenant, has its northeastern regional headquarters there. The buyer is a Westchester-based real estate holding company that was not identified in the announcement. Based in West Harrison in Westchester County, GHP Office Realty acquired the Wilton building in 2006 for $8.2 million. Elizabeth Smith, of Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP in New York City, represented the seller. The buyer was represented by William Anson, of RM Friedland LLC in Harrison.

WEBSITE OWNER SENTENCED FOR TAX EVASION

The owner of BangTheBook. com, a sports gaming information website based in Norwalk, has been sentenced to six months in prison for tax evasion, according to the U.S Attorney’s office for Connecticut. Ryan S. Rozycki pleaded guilty in September to failing to report more than $1.1 million in taxable income earned between 2009 and 2014. Rozycki reported more than $1.6

million in gross receipts on his federal income tax returns, but deposited his taxable income into his personal bank accounts and ultimately failed to pay more than $300,000 in federal income taxes, according to the federal prosecutor’s office. Rozycki, who has made full restitution of $336,780 to the Internal Revenue Service, will be required to pay interest and penalties. Free on a $100,000 bond, he was ordered to report to prison on April 30. His prison time will be followed by two years of supervised release.

REVISED PLANS FOR WESTPORT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

Able Construction has submitted a new special permit and site plan application for its planned development on the former grounds of the Daybreak Nursery in Westport. The Norwalk developer’s new plan calls for 11 instead of 12 units, and will be restricted to residents aged 55 and older. A previous plan had allowed 40 percent of residents to be under that age. Other changes in the new proposal of the 500 Main St. property include sidewalks, two instead of five curb cuts, a crosswalk on Weston Road and rerouting a planned driveway from Weston Road to Main Street. Daybreak, which had been at the site for 72 years, closed in 2014, and its buildings — which included a nursery, florist shop and landscaping operation — were demolished last spring.

Purdue Pharma LP has announced that it will cease the promotion of its opioids, including OxyContin, to physicians and will reduce the size of its sales force by half. “We have restructured and significantly reduced our commercial operation and will no longer be promoting opioids to prescribers,” the Stamford-based company said in a statement. Reuters reported that physicians with opioid-related questions will be directed to Purdue Pharma’s medical affairs department. The company’s remaining sales representatives will concentrate on marketing nonopioid products, including Symproic, a drug designed to treat opioid-induced constipation. Fourteen states have filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma, claiming its allegedly deceptive marketing of prescription opioids contributed to the ongoing opioid crisis. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut is also investigating the company. For its part, the company insisted that its drugs have U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval and accounted for only 2 percent of all opioid prescriptions.

STAMFORD’S AFFINION ACQUIRES INDIAN COMPANY

Stamford loyalty and customer engagement solutions firm Affinion Group has acquired one of its technology partners, Tavisca Solutions, for an undisclosed amount. Headquartered in Pune, India, with a U.S. office in Plano, Texas, Tavisca works with loyalty and leisure travel companies, including Affinion Group’s Connexions Loyalty division, to help sup-

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port and grow their online travel solutions. The acquisition will help Connexions better serve its clients’ needs and optimize its loyalty solution offerings, according to Affinion CEO Todd Siegel. Connexions’ loyalty programs are available to more than 200 million people in North America, South America and Asia. The division employs more than 900 people in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

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LOCKHEED CFO EXPECTS FLAT COMMERCIAL SALES AT SIKORSKY

Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Bruce Tanner told an aerospace conference that the company’s Sikorsky division is underperforming. According to Inside Defense, Tanner told the Cowen & Co. Aerospace/ Defense & Industrials Conference on Feb. 8 that he expects Sikorsky — the Shelton aircraft manufacturer that Lockheed acquired in 2015 for nearly $9 billion — to experience flat commercial sales for at least the short term. “We don’t have any expectation of commercial bouncing back... in (the next) three-year period at all,” he said. “Anything that happened on top of that would be very fortuitous for us.” “Sikorsky’s revenue is probably a little lower than we had expected when we acquired it,” Tanner said. “Definitely in the commercial side it’s lower than when we first acquired it.” — Phil Hall, Kevin Zimmerman

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Record year, tax law uncertainty for WWE

WE posted record financial results for 2017, but its fourth-quarter figures took a hit from the new tax code. Full-year revenue increased 10 percent to $801 million, the highest in the company’s history. Operating income increased 36 percent to $75.6 million. Adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortization increased 40 percent to $111.9 million, which was within the range of the Stamford firm’s guidance and represented an alltime record performance In addition, digital engagement continued to grow with video views up 32 percent to 20 billion and social media engagements up 4 percent to approximately 1.2 billion from the prior year. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, WWE reported net income of $4.8 million, compared with net income of $8 million in the prior year quarter. The company said that figure reflected charges totaling $11.3 million arising from the enactment of the new tax law. Those charges included a $10.9 million noncash charge due

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to the remeasurement of its deferred tax assets and $400,000 associated with the deemed repatriation of foreign earnings. The remeasurement was due to the reduction of the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, which reduced the future benefit WWE will realize associated with those assets. WWE said it believes the tax bill will provide a long-term benefit to the company. Operating income for the quarter increased to $27 million from $13.9 million. Meanwhile, a story has

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THE LIST: Power Solutions

fairfield county ENERGY COMPANIES

FAIRFIELD COUNTY AND REGION

Listed alphabetically. Name Address Area code: 203, unless otherwise noted Website

President/ top local executive Title Year founded

Cannondale Generators Inc.

Paul Bonomo Owner 1990 Michael Kerslake President 2005 Bruce Angeloszek Owner 1994 Anthony J. Guzzo President and CEO 1994 Paul Ahern Founder and president 2005 Richard A. Nowak President 1992

390 Danbury Road, Wilton 06897 762-2608 • cannondalegenerators.com

Comfort King Energy Services

199 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield 06877 515-8088 • comfortkingenergy.com

CT Electrical Services

16 Pamanata Meadows, Beacon Falls 06404 723-9052 • ctelectrical.com

EMCOR Energy Services

301 Merritt Seven, Fifth floor, Norwalk 06851 849-7800 • emcorgroup.com

EnterSolar **

805 Third Ave., 20th floor, New York 10022 888-225-0270 • entersolar.com

Environmental Energy Services (EES)

5 Turnberry Lane, Sandy Hook 06482 270-0337 • eescorp.com

Description/Services

Generator installation and maintenance Heating, cooling, propane and fuel oil delivery

Solar energy systems and electrical services Mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure, LEED certification design/build, life safety, facilities services Solar energy company for businesses looking to convert to solar power solutions Clean coal technology company providing innovative chemistry for energy efficiency

Eversource Energy *

James J. Judge President and CEO 2012

Electric energy and natural gas company serving all of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island; recently acquired Aquarion Water Co., a water utility company

Gault Energy

Samuel Gault President 1863

Supplier of home heating oil, propane gas, electricity, heating and air conditioning, installation and services, generators, energy audits and indoor air quality products to homes and businesses in Fairfield County

GE Energy Financial Services Inc.

David Nason President and CEO 1980

Conventional power, renewable energy, oil and gas reserves, oil and gas infrastructure

Kinsley Energy Group

David Kinsley President 1964

Energy solutions provider for customers throughout the northeast, distributer of Kohler power systems, provider of prime movers for co-generations, biomass and landfill applications

Northeast Generator Co.

Louis Holzner President 1964

Backup power systems, generator sales and installation, service and repairs to families and businesses

Northfield Fuel

John O'Leary President 1985

Supplier of home heating oil, propane gas, electricity, heating and air conditioning installation and services, generators and diesel fuel

NRG Energy **

Mauricio Gutierrez President and CEO 1989

Energy services, including solar and thermal solutions

Prime Energy Corp.

Charles E. Drimal Jr. President and CEO NA

Independent oil and gas company engaged in acquiring, developing and producing oil and natural gas

PurePoint Energy LLC

Tom Wemyss and David Neaderland Founders 2007 Thomas S. Santa President and CEO 1940 Thomas Tatoian Owner 1988

P.O. Box 270, Hartford 06141-0270 877-944-5325 • eversource.com

11 Ferry Lane West, Westport 06880 227-5181 • gaultenergy.com 800 Long Ridge Road, Stamford 06902 357-6400 • geenergyfinancialservices.com

14 Connecticut South Drive, East Granby 06026 860-844-6100 • kinsley-group.com 625 John St., Bridgeport 06604 336-3031 • northeastgenerator.com P.O. Box 997, Riverside 06878 629-3835 • northfieldfuel.com 700 Naugatuck Ave., Milford 06461 874-2512 • nrg.com

1 Landmark Square, Suite 1100, Stamford 06901 358-5700 • primeenergy.com

28 Knight St., Norwalk 06851 989-2905 • purepointenergy.com

Santa Energy Corp.

154 Admiral St., Bridgeport 06605 800-937-2682 • santaenergy.com

Sunshine Environmental Services Inc. **

130 Railroad Hill St., Waterbury 06708 753-5353

Superior Plus Energy Services

Andy Peyton, president Eric Derlega, branch manager 1922

The United Illuminating Co. **

James P. Torgerson Chairman and CEO 1899 Michael J. Fallquist Founder and CEO 2009 Craig Snyder President 1996

150 Day St., Seymour 06483 888-2535 • superiorplusenergy.com P.O. Box 1564, New Haven 06506 499-5973 • uinet.com

Viridian Energy

535 Connecticut Ave, Fifth floor, Norwalk 06854 866-663-2508 • viridian.com

Wesson Energy Inc.**

165 Railroad Hill St., Waterbury 06708 756-7041 • wessonenergy.com

Solar energy provider Energy supplier to all of New England with relationships in petroleum, natural gas and electricity for residential, commercial and wholesale consumers Fuel provider

Full-service delivery of heating, oil, propane and kerosene Electric distribution company for residential, commercial and industrial customers Green energy provider Home energy audits, heating and cooling products, equipment installation and repair

Wheelabrator Bridgeport LP

Philip Schwer Plant manager NA

Waste-to-energy facility

Wilcox Energy **

David Foster President 1955

Full-service delivery of heating oil, biofuel and propane; installation and service of HVAC systems

6 Howard Ave., Bridgeport 06605 800-963-4776 • wtienergy.com

1179 Boston Post Road, Westbrook 06498 860-399-6218 • wilcox-energy.com

This list is a sampling of energy companies serving the region. If you would like to include your company in our next list, please contact Danielle Renda at drenda@westfairinc.com. * **

Company formed by the merging of Northeast Utilities and its operating companies, Connecticut Light & Power, Public Service of New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts Electric and Yankee Gas with NSTAR Electric & Gas. Company located outside of Fairfield County but serves the region.

NA Not available.

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INSURANCE Special Report

Insuring your business against social engineering fraud By Jeff Rubin and John Farley

irtually every business relies on a network to conduct its daily operations. This often involves the collection, storage, transfer and eventual disposal of sensitive data. However, securing that data continues to be a challenge for organizations of all sizes. Social security numbers, W-2 forms, payment cards and intellectual property have significant value on the black market and provide opportunities for hackers to monetize your business’ data. Tax season is upon us, which is a time when hackers are particularly focused on W-2 forms. Once obtained, they can file fraudulent tax returns and use the data from the W-2 form to commit additional identity theft crimes. This type of fraud often occurs in a multistage process via an emerging tactic that we have come to know as social engineering. Criminals first gather information, then form relationships with key people and finally execute their plan, often via email. Gone are the days where malicious actors send poorly worded emails; sophisticated methods are deployed and can fool even the most trained employee into releasing sensitive data. There are several methods of social engineering that are seen frequently, including the following: • Business email compromise (BEC)/email phishing. The email accounts of high-level business executives, such as CEO and CFO, may be mimicked or hacked. A request for a wire transfer, W-2 forms or other sensitive information from the compromised email account is made to someone responsi-

ble for processing transfers. The demand is often made in an urgent or time-sensitive manner. • Interactive voice response/ phone phishing (also known as vishing). Using automation to replicate a legitimate-sounding message that appears to come from a bank or other financial institution and directs the recipient to respond in order to “verify” confidential information. • Bogus invoice. A business that has a longstanding relationship with a supplier is asked to wire funds to pay an invoice to an alternate, fraudulent account via email. The email request appears very similar to a legitimate account and would take very close scrutiny to determine if it was fraudulent. The devastating effect of human-based fraud was evidenced in the FBI’s 2016 Internet Crime Report. According to the report, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received 12,005 business email compromise complaints with losses of over $360 million.

HOW TO AVOID BEING DEFRAUDED

Given the rising incidence of social engineering fraud, all companies should implement basic risk avoidance measures. • Educate and train your employees so they can be vigilant and recognize fraudulent behavior. • Establish a procedure requiring any verbal or emailed request for funds or information transfer to be confirmed in person or via phone by the individual making the request. • Consider two-factor authorization for high-level IT and financial security

functions and dual signatures on wire transfers greater than a certain threshold. • Avoid free web-based email and establish a private company domain and use it to create valid email accounts in lieu of free, webbased accounts. • Be careful of what is posted to social media and company websites, especially job duties and descriptions, hierarchal information and out of office details. • Do not open spam or unsolicited email from unknown parties and do not click on links in the email. These often contain malware that will give subjects access to your computer system. • Do not use the “Reply” option to respond to any financial emails. Instead, use the “Forward” option and use the correct email address or select it from the email address book to ensure the intended recipient’s correct email address is used. • Beware of sudden changes in business practices. For example, if a current business contact suddenly asks to be contacted via their personal email address when all previous official correspondence has been on a company email, the request could be fraudulent. Despite these efforts, organizations can still fall victim to a social engineering scheme. These incidents can be reported to the joint FBI/National White Collar Crime Center - Internet Crime Complaint Center. The initial concern after such an event often focuses on the amount of stolen funds. However, there could be an even greater threat since these incidents often involve the compromise of personally identifiable information, which can be

Jeff Rubin and John Farley

Having a knowledgeable specialist walk you through the exposures and properly address them with the right insurance product will ensure your balance sheet is protected and assist in mitigating the event when it occurs.

later used for identity theft of multiple people. This will often trigger legal obligations to investigate the matter and to communicate to affected individuals and regulators. This often leads to litigation and significant financial and reputational harm to businesses. Costs to comply with privacy law can include fines, legal fees, IT forensics costs, credit monitoring services for affected individuals, mailing and call center fees and public relations costs.

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Fortunately, the insurance industry has developed policies that can transfer these risks. Crime insurance policies can cover fraudulent funds transfers while cyber insurance policies may cover costs related to unauthorized access of protected or sensitive information. However, the insurance buyer needs to be wary of various policy terms and coverage limitations. For example, some crime policies can contain exclusionary language for cases involving voluntary transfer of funds, even though they were unknowingly transferred to a criminal. Other insurers might add policy language to crime or cyber policies to cover this situation. Having a knowledgeable specialist walk you through the exposures and properly

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address them with the right insurance product will ensure your balance sheet is protected and assist in mitigating the event when it occurs. All businesses need to be vigilant in addressing the ever-evolving risks related to their most valuable assets. The most effective risk management plans aim to prevent social engineering fraud incidents from happening and mitigate the damages if they do. Turning your employees from your weakest link and into your greatest asset in the battle is the first step toward prevention. Working with a specialty insurance broker, who understands the coverage issues and negotiates coverage that is customized toward your business’ risks, is key in guaranteeing balance sheet protection and preventing a disruption to your business. Jeff Rubin is senior vice president and branch manager of HUB International Northeast’s Connecticut and Westchester operations, based in the insurance brokerage’s Fairfield office.. He can be reached at 203-337-1872 or by email at jeff.rubin@hubinternational.com. John Farley is vice president and cyber risk services practice leader at HUB International. He can reached at 212-338-2150 or by email at john.farley@hubinternational.com.

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ConnectiCare looks to grow its retail space and market share BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

aving long since established its name in the state, the insurance carrier ConnectiCare is redoubling its branding efforts in Fairfield County and beyond. “We want to improve our brand recognition,” said Roberta “Bert” Wachtelhausen, the Farmington insurer’s senior vice president and chief sales and marketing officer. “We’ve got some good momentum already, but we want to improve our profile and our market share.” For the just-completed open enrollment period on the state’s health insurance exchange Access Health CT, ConnectiCare had about 83,000 customers, the majority of whom are in Fairfield County, compared with 31,000 for Anthem,

the only other insurer on AccessHealth. ConnectiCare said it covers in total about 92,000 state residents. An additional 48,000 people are enrolled though its Medicare Advantage program. ConnectiCare’s total market share in the state is about 80 percent, according to Kim Kann, the insurer’s public relations and corporate communications director. Before joining ConnectiCare in 2016, Wachtelhausen served as a senior vice president at Shelton consultancy LifeCare and was a co-founder and senior vice president at Averde Health, a now-defunct Hartford health benefits company. She was brought in specifically to help raise ConnectiCare’s profile, she said. Despite the ongoing uncertainty over the future of the exchanges, created by the Affordable Care Act, Wachtelhausen said the

company remains committed to the state and is moving full-steam ahead with its expansion in Fairfield County. ConnectiCare considered dropping out of the exchange in 2016. ConnectiCare’s sales office at 55 Water St. in Bridgeport is barely visible from the street, Wachtelhausen said, and with its lease expiring in June, the company is hunting for a larger office space that would also accommodate a retail operation. Growing from three to as many as 10 employees, the new office is expected to open by late summer in a “high-traffic area,” she said. That office might not be in Bridgeport, Wachtelhausen said, although the company’s other location in the city, in the Sanitas Medical Center building at 4551 Main St., continues to have strong success. One of four retail locations in

the state — the others are in Manchester, Newington and Waterbury — ConnectiCare’s Bridgeport store allows customers to purchase policies, ask questions about billing and other topics, and receive other customer service. Part of a collaboration between the insurer and Sanitas, the Main Street store since its opening in January 2017 has been named the preferred primary care provider by about 2,500 people. Kann said the company expects those numbers to grow this year. ConnectiCare recently joined both the Bridgeport Regional Business Council and the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce to “make sure the business communities there know us,” Wachtelhausen said. “Chambers can play a really valuable role when it comes to membership, so we want to educate them about what we do.” “We want to go deep into

communities, both from a B2B and a B2C standpoint It’s a very grassroots approach.” While the insurer expects to join other chambers of commerce in the county, Wachtelhausen cautioned that “we’re evaluating which ones make the most sense for us in terms of active and prospective participants.” As a part of New York City’s EmblemHealth, which acquired it in 2005, ConnectiCare is also enhancing its product offerings to increasingly allow Fairfield County residents to seamlessly use New York health care providers. “With the commuting patterns between the two states, it makes sense,” Wachtelhausen said. “When a ConnectiCare member goes to a doctor in New York, we want to make sure that doctor recognizes us so that there is a seamless payment of the claim.”

On the national front, ConnectiCare is bringing the health enhancement program it administers for state of Connecticut employees and their dependents to employers across the country. Administered by ConnectiCare subsidiary Care Management Solutions Inc., the program, serves to meet state requirements for its employees that range from scheduling physicals and regular checkups to flu shots and dental cleanings. Wachtelhausen said she’s been traveling around the country for the past two months to determine if other state governments are interested. “If they want to private-label it and recommend it to their clients, that’s fine too,” she said. “Getting more businesses across the country, the state and Fairfield County to sign up with us is a big part of my purpose,” she said. “I’ve never met a sales lead I didn’t like.”

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Facts & Figures ATTACHMENTS-FILED Pierre Home LLC, et al., Stamford. Filed by Joseph M. Metzger, Torrington. $24,863 in favor of O&G Industries Inc., Torrington. Property: 243 Haig Ave., Unit 204, Stamford. Filed Jan. 25. Sachem Capital Corp., Shelton. Filed by Christopher T. Bowen. $528,640 in favor of Sachem Capital Corp. Property: 51 Wabuda Place, Shelton. Filed Jan. 10. Shmak, Walter E., Greenwich. Filed by $83,700 in favor of Sharon SNF CT. Property: property undisclosed, Greenwich. Filed Jan. 22.

BANKRUPTCIES Handsome Inc., 2 Easton Heights Lane, Easton. Chapter 11. Assets: $100,000 to $500,000. Liabilities: $1 million to $10 million. Creditors: Bank of America, $22,000; TD Bank, $1.1 million; Webster Bank, $160,000. Debtors attorney: Harlow, Adams & Friedman PC, Milford. Filed Feb. 1.

BUILDING PERMITS COMMERCIAL Beard Sawmill LLC, Shelton, contractor for AFLAC. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 100 Beard Sawmill Place, Shelton. Estimated cost: $88,000. Filed Jan. 23. Beard Sawmill LLC, Shelton, contractor for Integrated Tot. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 100 Beard Sawmill Place, Shelton. Estimated cost: $14,000. Filed Jan. 23. BLT Management LLC, Stamford, contractor for 695 East Main Stamford LLC. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 200 Elm St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $1.4 million. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. Items appearing in the Fairfield County Business Journal’s On The Record section are compiled from various sources, including public records made available to the media by federal, state and municipal agencies and the court system. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this information, no liability is assumed for errors or omissions. In the case of legal action, the records cited are open to public scrutiny and should be inspected before any action is taken. Questions and comments regarding this section should be directed to: John Golden c/o Westfair Communications Inc. 3 Westchester Park Drive, Suite G7 White Plains, N.Y. 10604-3407 Phone: 694-3600 • Fax: 694-3680

BLT Management LLC, contractor for One Harbor Point Square LLC. Install a demising wall in an existing commercial space at 2200 Atlantic St., Unit S1, Stamford. Estimated cost: $11,950. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

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Signature Construction Group of Connecticut Inc., Stamford, contractor for SPUS8 680 Washington Blvd LP. Alter the interior of an existing commercial space at 680 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $172,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Church of Holy Name of Jesus, Stamford, contractor for self. Renovate a classroom and add a fence to the playground area at 305 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Signs Pro LLC, contractor for Bank Interest LLC. Add a sign to the exterior of an existing commercial space at 41 Bank St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $659. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Concordia General Contracting, contractor for Tails of Courage Inc. Install water-resistant walls in the garage of an existing commercial space at 39 Smith St., Danbury. Estimated cost: $2,800. Filed Jan. 24.

TR Sono Partners LLC, Norwalk, contractor for self. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 134 Washington St., Unit 102D, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Environmental Control Inc., contractor for First Presbyterian Church of Stamford. Add solar panels on the roof of an existing commercial space at 1101 Bedford St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $116,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Tri State Construction, Flushing, New York, contractor for A Charming Nail & Spa. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 515 Bridgeport Ave., Shelton. Estimated cost: $7,500. Filed Feb. 2.

Home Depot USA Inc., contractor for Joseph Frank Calderone. Replace the windows in an existing commercial space at Summer St., Unit N1063D, Stamford. Estimated cost: $3,281. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Wood, Richard C., contractor for Southfield Property LLC. Install a roof at 28 Southfield Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $448,580. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Huntington Woods LLC, Shelton, contractor for AT&T. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 704 Bridgeport Ave., Unit 102, Shelton. Estimated cost: $20,000. Filed Jan. 23. Logvinski, Dmitri, contractor for the city of Stamford. Build a partition at the existing office in a commercial space at 888 Washington Blvd., Stamford. Estimated cost: $5,400. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. Nanos, Athanasios, Stamford, contractor for self. Create a flower shop and restaurant in an existing commercial space at 79 Atlantic St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $100,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. Nanos, Athanasios, Stamford, contractor for self. Reinforce the support on the front wall of the basement of an existing single-family residence at 79 Atlantic St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $11,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. Signature Construction Group of Connecticut Inc., Stamford, contractor for Soundview Farms LLC. Alter the interior of an existing commercial space at 72 Cummings Point Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $655,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Carney, Timothy J., et al., Norwalk, contractor for self. Renovate the kitchen and bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 1 Rochelle Road, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $17,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Jayne, Janet and Donald E. Jayne, Shelton, contractor for self. Add solar panels to the roof of an existing single-family residence at 317 Buddington Road, Shelton. Estimated cost: $60,320. Filed Feb. 2.

Fullin Associates LLC, Norwalk, contractor for self. Demolish the walls in an existing single-family residence at 517 Westport Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Jody Builders Corp., Danbury, contractor for Chilaka Osuagwu. Change the half bathroom to a full one in an existing single-family residence at 10 Lake Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $7,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Gagliardo, Luz, et al., Stamford, contractor for self. Upgrade the interior of an existing single-family residence at 24 Rising Rock Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $14,500. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Kaminski, Stephanie, Norwalk, contractor for self. Replace the existing fire escape on a single-family residence at 4 Neptune Ave., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $70,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Gaynor, Ed, Shelton, contractor for self. Repair and replace the meter box on a two-family residence at 65 Park St., Shelton. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Konecny, John, Shelton, contractor for self. Finish the basement, bathroom, bar and family room, office and summer kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 92 Longfellow Road, Shelton. Estimated cost: $28,750. Filed Jan. 30.

Gillotti, Holly and Adams Holly, Danbury, contractor for self. Replace the deck on an existing single-family residence at 2 Oak Lane, Danbury. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed Jan. 18.

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Guillermo, Loor, Danbury, contractor for self. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 39 Topstone Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $4,000. Filed Jan. 16.

33 Franklin St. LLC, contractor for Scott Wyman, et al. Add a dormer to an existing single-family residence at 7 Crestview Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $85,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Henry, Michael E., contractor for Chester S. Lucas and Sandra J. Lucas. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 2 Coach Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $6,050. Filed Jan. 17.

66 Beecher Ave Shelton LLC, Shelton, contractor for self. Remodel the bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 66 Beecher Ave., Shelton. Estimated cost: $18,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Hiram-Hall, King, Shelton, contractor for self. Renovate the second floor of an existing single-family residence at 491 Coram Ave., Shelton. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Aiello Roofing Co., contractor for Anita H. DiCostanzo. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 179 Southern Blvd., Danbury. Estimated cost: $9,125. Filed Jan. 16.

The Home Depot USA Inc., contractor for Adams Avenue LLC. Replace the windows in an existing single-family residence and change the structural openings at 18 Carroll St., Stamford. Estimated cost: $9,072. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Antman, Esteban, Danbury, contractor for self. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 11 Rolf Drive, Danbury. Estimated cost: $6,800. Filed Jan. 16. Ballaro, Joseph A., Shelton, contractor for self. Remodel the bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 639 Booth Hill Road, Shelton. Estimated cost: $2,000. Filed Jan. 17. Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina, contractor for self. Replace the roofing on an existing single-family residence at 6 Maple Lane Extension, Shelton. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Integral Projects LLC, Stamford, contractor for Daniel C. Milano, et al. Raise the roof on an existing single-family residence to allow for a livable area on Waterbury Avenue, Stamford. Estimated cost: $106,620. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. J&N Enterprises Inc., Monroe, contractor for self. Install interior plumbing in an existing single-family residence at 85 Wesley Drive, Shelton. Estimated cost: $19,800. Filed Feb. 1.

Misiewicz, Stephen, Shelton, contractor for self. Alter the master bedroom, living room and kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 4 Providence Ave., Shelton. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Jan. 18. Money Sense Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for Raul Meruelo. Remodel the bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 38 Haviland Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $31,800. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. Monumental Construction LLC, contractor for Jeffrey A. Bayliss. Remodel the master bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 82 Briar Ridge Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $10,000. Filed Jan. 16. Persico, Frank, Shelton, contractor for self. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 116 Shelton Ave., Shelton. Estimated cost: $10,260. Filed Jan. 24. Polizzo, Susan and Frank Polizzo, Shelton, contractor for self. Strip and reroof an existing single-family residence at 1 Curran Lane, Shelton. Estimated cost: $12,400. Filed Jan. 18.

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Portullis Partners LLC, contractor for Leann Sharpe, et al. Add a recreation room on top of the garage and include a new powder room at 208 Shelter Rock Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $58,300. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. Proto, Daniela and Louis Proto, Shelton, contractor for self. Finish the basement, bedroom and closet in an existing single-family residence at 15 Capitol Drive, Shelton. Estimated cost: $10,125. Filed Jan. 17.

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GOOD THINGS AVON COMPANY RECEIVES RECOGNITION

Back row, from left: Anthony Viducic, Wilmington Trust N.A.; Samuel B. Tingley Jr., M&T Bank; and John Parisio, M&T Bank. Front row, from left: John A. Trobiano, Wilmington Trust; Kim and Stew Leonard Jr.; Doreen Miner, Stew Leonard III Children’s Charities; Shannon Saltos, Wilmington Trust; Patrick T. Dentato, Stew Leonard’s; and William Carpenter, Stew Leonard’s.

$5K FOR SWIMMING SAFETY Stew Leonard III Children’s Charities in Norwalk received a donation of $5,000 from M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust (part of the M&T Bank family). This is the fourth consecutive year that the bank has partnered with the charity that has a goal of keeping children safe around the water. The donation will help to provide free or low-cost swimming lessons to children as well as lifeguard training at various YMCAs and city-funded swim programs in Fairfield County. Stew Leonard III Children’s Charities was founded in 1990 by Kim and Stew Leonard in memory of their son. On January 1, 1989, Stew Leonard III, at the age of only 21 months, was the victim of a drowning accident. As a result, his parents pledged to do everything in their power to prevent other families from having to face such a tragedy. Drowning is the cause of about one-third of accidental deaths among children under four according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stew Leonard III Children’s Charities has raised more than $2 million to promote water safety awareness and education, including lifeguard training and providing 10,000 free or low-cost swimming lessons to children each year.

From left, Meg Robustelli and Lauren Bonefant of Stepping Stones, and Allison Lardner and Courtney Nields of Save the Children.

FUNDS FOR CHILDREN IN PUERTO RICO

Stepping Stones Museum for Children presented the global humanitarian organization Save the Children’s Hurricane Maria Relief Fund with a check for $4,500 to assist children and families in Puerto Rico. The donation was raised by the “Party for a Purpose” event hosted by Stepping Stones before Thanksgiving in partnership with Save the Children and local businesses. The event featured Colony Grill pizza, dancing and music by the Fiesta Boyz. Save the Children is involved in a variety of activities to help ensure good futures for children throughout the world, including education, health and nutrition. The nonprofit said its current focus in Puerto Rico is centered on education, along with programs that support childhood emotional and mental health and resilience.

IRON CAMP RAISES FUNDS FOR PAWS

Ever been invited to a party where having fun has nothing to do with the food, beverages or music but everything to do with lifting 225, 350 or even 475 pounds of weights? There was just such a party recently in Greenwich when certified personal trainer LaRoy Warner, owner of the weight-training facility Iron Camp, hosted a “Deadlift Party.” The deadlift is one of three main exercises used in weight training, the others being the squat and bench press. In deadlifting, a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground and brought up to the level of the hips, then lowered. More than just flexing muscles happened at the party: funds were raised to benefit PAWS of Greenwich, a nonprofit which supports revitalization of Grass Island Dog Park, promotion and partnerships with local animal rescues and pet care companies, launch of pet therapy programs and more. In addition to hundreds of pounds of weights being raised by the participants, $400 was raised for PAWS of Greenwich and presented by Warner to PAWS founder Jessica Del Guercio. One participant, Leslie Taveras-Torres, said, “Most women are afraid to bulk up by lifting heavy weights, that isn’t the case and LaRoy is good at helping his clients maintain the look they want while building strength.”

GOOD SOLES FOR GOOD SOULS The Greenwich United Way Sole Sisters have teamed up with Neighbor to Neighbor to host a shoe drive to benefit low-income families living in the Greenwich community. The drive will run from Feb. 26 through March 9 and shoes will be collected at several locations around town, including the Greenwich United Way office at 500 W. Putnam Ave. and Neighbor to Neighbor at 248 E. Putnam Ave. Spearheading the shoe drive are 2018 Sole Sisters Luncheon committee members Kirsten Riemer and Olivia Langston. The 2018 Sole Sisters Luncheon chairs Jaime Eisenberg and her co-chair Grace Lockhart Djuranovic, are organizing the 13th annual luncheon to take place at Greenwich Country Club on April 24.

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Designers Choice of Avon, a wholesale furniture distributor, has been cited for its design, customer service and photography by users of the Houzz website, which deals with architecture, interior design and decorating, landscape design and home improvement. The site claims about 40 million unique monthly visitors who are invited to praise or pan the merchants and suppliers who participate. Led by second-generation owner Fred Carter, Designers Choice works directly with 75 furniture and accessory lines to help designers find furnishings they need at discount prices. “We are so honored that our clients have singled us out for our commitment to customer service and have recognized our efforts to go the extra mile to assist with all their decorating needs,” said Carter.

CHIECO RECEIVES PROMOTION

The creative team at Sublime Communications designed the car’s art with blue and gold predominating.

SUBLIME GOES VROOM Sublime Communications, a marketing and advertising agency headquartered in Stamford, has signed as an official sponsor of NASCAR driver #80. The sponsorship was announced by Nicole Enslein, CEO and founder of Sublime Communications. The company’s commitment includes involvement in multiple NASCAR races, including the season opener at the 60th annual Daytona 500, held Feb. 18. “Sublime Communications arranges NASCAR sponsorships for its clients,” Enslein explained. “Now we’ve made our agency our own client. Sponsorship is a big brand builder, so we took our own advice and put our name right in the middle of one of the world’s most popular attractions.”

Morgan Stanley has announced that Peter Chieco, who is with the firm’s wealth management office in Greenwich, has been promoted to managing director, wealth management. Chieco has been with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management since 1995. Chieco holds a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University. He is a resident of Bedford Corners, New York.

HAPPENING HEADLINERS ANNOUNCED FOR BENEFIT Seated, from left: Kevin Dolan, Xana’s husband; Xana Dolan; and Sharon Young, Xana’s mother, a senior fraud investigator at Webster. Standing, from left: Frank Teti Jr., Webster assistant vice president and safety manager; Kim Syrop, Webster senior vice president, director of change management, ACH and Wire; Timothy Bergstrom, Hartford regional president and head of business banking for Connecticut; and Kevin Thompson, Webster vice president and manager of fraud services.

WEBSTER BANKER NAMED A NEW LEADER “New Leaders in Banking” are selected every year by the Connecticut Banking Association and Connecticut Banking magazine based on nominations submitted by bank employees. On Feb. 6, Waterbury-based Webster bank announced that Xana Dolan, its vice president, service of process, research and background screening, had been selected based on her impact within the bank and the community. She was honored during an event at the Mohegan Sun that was attended by more than 300 bankers from across Connecticut. Dolan is a Wallingford resident. She serves on the bank’s leadership committee for the employee United Way campaign, and has been a volunteer in her community as a Big Sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters. She also has volunteered at CT Food Bank for more than 12 years.

Music luminaries Valerie Simpson, Paul Shaffer and Darlene Love are scheduled to appear at Stamford’s Palace Theatre on April 28 in a concert to benefit the Children’s Learning Centers of Fairfield County. “We are extremely pleased to bring these incredible artists to Stamford for our benefit concert,” said Marc E. Jaffe the nonprofit’s CEO. “The evening’s proceeds will help us serve children with our unique, holistic approach to early learning.” Simpson rose to fame along with her late husband Nick Ashford as Ashford and Simpson. The singer and songwriter’s chart toppers include “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing” and “I’m Every Woman.” Shaffer is best known as the longtime bandleader for David Letterman. His 2017 album — “Paul Shaffer & The World’s Most Dangerous Band” — features guest appearances from Simpson and

Bill Murray. Shaffer also made a musical mark as the bandleader on “Saturday Night Live.” Love is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and was recognized by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest singers of all time.  A cocktail reception begins at 6 p.m. with a special performance from preschool children. Alan Kalter, a Stamford resident and former announcer on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” will be the emcee. The nonprofit will honor Synchrony Financial CEO Margaret Keane with its inaugural “CLC Knobby Award,” named for long-standing CLC supporters Audrey and William Knobloch.     For premier seating and sponsorship opportunities, call 203653-1337. General admission tickets are available through the Palace Theatre, 203-325-4466 or palacestamford.org.

STAMFORD STAFFING FIRM HONORED

BUSINESS COUNCIL HONORS 44 COMPANIES The Business Council of Fairfield County hosted a Healthy Workplace Employer Recognition Program Feb. 14 in the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa at which 44 companies were honored. Matthew Fair, co-chair of The Business Council’s Wellness Roundtable, said, “Through creative programming, employee feedback and health assessment measures, our 2018 Healthy Workplace honorees are succeeding in improving the health and productivity of their employees while reducing overall health care costs.” The recognition program is supported by Key Insurance Benefits and Services and UnitedHealthcare of Connecticut Inc.

OPIOID ABUSE PRESENTATION IN FAIRFIELD The abuse of opioids is a national epidemic, and many are calling for more public education about the extent of the abuse and the consequences of failing to confront it. In Fairfield on Feb. 22, the facts are expected to be addressed when Robert Bepko, administrative director of pharmacy services for Western Connecticut Health Network discusses “The Abuse of Opioids and the Pharmacology of How These Drugs Work.” The event takes place at the Fairfield Public Library, 1080 Old Post Road, beginning at 7 p.m. Bepko will address common opioid pain medications, their short- and long-term effects and why there is a potential for their unintended abuse. A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Bepko is chairman of its Pharmacy Advisory Board. Western Connecticut Health Network is composed of Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital and Norwalk Hospital and their affiliated organizations.

Valerie Simpson, Paul Shaffer, Darlene Love

Benchmark personnel, from left: Allison Junquera, John Bemis and Nancy LaPerla Bemis.

Benchmark IT, a Stamford-based information technology staffing firm, received an Excellence Award from the TechServe Alliance during its annual conference in Phoenix. TechServe is the IT staffing industry’s trade and legislative advocacy association. The award recognizes IT staffing and solutions firms that have demonstrated outstanding performance, team productivity and dedication to continuous improvement over the past year. “The hard news is there are thousands of open jobs and not nearly enough skilled workers,” said Allison Junquera, director of recruiting at Benchmark. “We are working diligently with the community on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, as well as with local high schools to encourage kids towards computer science degrees, and with career counselors at local colleges to place graduates into technology roles,” said Nancy LaPerla Bemis, the company’s vice president of marketing. The current political effort to limit immigration could affect IT staffing, according to John Bemis, Benchmark’s president. “There are 100,000 of guest workers in the U.S. We don’t have enough qualified American workers right now or in the near future to fill their jobs. The potential risk of limiting H1-B visa workers means more outsourcing, which means job loss here in the U.S.”

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Facts & Figures R. Botsford Custom Woodworking, contractor for Mona M. Ayer and John H. Ayer. Remodel the kitchen in an existing single-family residence at 37 Jeanette Road, Danbury. Estimated cost: $28,500. Filed Jan. 22. Roddy, Bryan F., contractor for Janet L. Jefferson. Remodel the kitchen in an existing single-family residence and remove a wall at 6 Nolan Court, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $32,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Thomas, Joanne S. and Gary Thomas, Shelton, contractor for self. Remodel the bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 27 Earl St., Shelton. Estimated cost: $6,500. Filed Jan. 31. Turiano, Laura, Shelton, contractor for self. Convert a half bathroom into a full bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 94 Tuckahoe Drive, Shelton. Estimated cost: $5,000. Filed Feb. 2.

Rugby Realty, Shelton, contractor for Barrington Media. Install cabling in an existing single-family residence at 4 Armstrong Court, Shelton. Estimated cost: $17,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Ullda, Jose, et al., Stamford, contractor for self. Renovate the kitchen, two bedrooms and one master bathroom in an existing single-family residence at 1361 Shippan Ave., Stamford. Estimated cost: $125,735. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

S&G of Shelton LLC, Shelton, contractor for self. Renovate the kitchen, roof, deck and dormer in an existing single-family residence at 68 Jefferson St., Shelton. Estimated cost: $39,400. Filed Feb. 1.

US Bank, Irving, California, contractor for self. Remove and replace the roof shingles on an existing single-family residence at 55 Village Drive, Shelton. Estimated cost: $8,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Safeside Home Services Inc., Wethersfield, contractor for Peter J. Christian, et al. Install a wood stove on the counter top in a condominium at 39 Cody Drive, Stamford. Estimated cost: $4,189. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

Zubrinsky, Fred, Norwalk, contractor for self. Perform an interior fit-out in an existing commercial space for a new tenant at 30-36 Main St., Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Sigma Property Solutions LLC, contractor for Vojislav Djordjic. Construct a new single-family residence at 511 Den Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $420,000. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

COURT CASES

Stagg, Jennifer C., Norwalk, contractor for self. Renovate the interior of an existing single-family residence at 5 Riverwalk Lane, Norwalk. Estimated cost: $1,000. Filed Jan. 26. Thomas Sturges Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for self. Construct a new single-family residence with four bedrooms, three and one-half bathrooms, an attached two-car garage, a back deck and covered front porch at Lot 2, Stillwater Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $376,680. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26. Thomas Sturges Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for self. Construct a new single-family residence with four bedrooms, three and one-half bathrooms, an attached two-car garage, a back deck and covered front porch at Lot 3, Stillwater Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $376,680. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

The following court cases represent the allegations made by plaintiffs in the initial filings of civil lawsuits, and do not represent legally binding judgments made by the courts.

Bridgeport Superior Court American Commerce Insurance Co., et al., Hartford. Filed by Shaquisha Rogers, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Balzano & Tropiano PC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendants alleging that she collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of her insurance company and related parties, the defendants. The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. FBT-CV18-6070766-S. Filed Jan. 31.

Thomas Sturges Construction LLC, Stamford, contractor for self. Construct a new single-family residence with four bedrooms, three and half bathrooms, an attached two-car garage, a back deck and covered front porch at Lot 4 Stillwater Road, Stamford. Estimated cost: $376,680. Filed between Jan. 1 and Jan. 26.

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Avis Budjget Group Inc., et al., Hartford. Filed by Carmen Dickson, Bridgeport. Plaintiff’s attorney: James M. Kearns, Trumbull. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that she was hit by a car owned by the defendants and driven by an employee of the defendants during the course of their work. The defendants were allegedly negligent in that they operated their motor vehicle at an unreasonable rate of speed. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as the court deems just and proper. Case no. FBT-CV18-6070749-S. Filed Jan. 30. CBRE Inc., et al., East Hartford. Filed by Gustavo Alberto Munoz, Greenwich. Plaintiff’s attorney: Wesley M. Malowitz, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that he slipped on an icy surface owned by the defendants and sustained injury. This icy condition was allegedly allowed to exist due to the negligence of the defendants and their employees in that they failed to clear the snow and ice from their parking lot. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV186070845-S. Filed Feb. 2. Danbury Lodge No. 1373 Loyal Order of Moose Inc., Hartford. Filed by United Amusements & Vending Co., Fairfield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Offices of David Eric Ross LLC, Westport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it breached its agreement by allowing another competitor to lease equipment to a premises, which the defendants owned, causing damages. The plaintiff claims money damages, court costs, reasonable attorney’s fees, interest and such other and further relief as the court deems just and fair. Case no. FBT-CV18-6070693-S. Filed Jan. 29. Deleo Pool & Spas LLC, et al., Hartford. Filed by Andrew Brodtman, Monroe. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosenberg, Miller, Hite and Morilla LLC, Stratford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they failed to provide a start date and end date in their contract, thus not complying with the law. The plaintiff has allegedly been damaged in that he had to find another contractor to complete his renovation. The plaintiff claims money damages and court costs in excess of $15,000. Case no. FBTCV18-6070772-S. Filed Jan. 31.

Hillcroft Partners LLC, et al., Stamford. Filed by Gail Crumblish, Danbury. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Flood Law Firm LLC, Middletown. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that she slipped on an icy surface owned by the defendants and sustained injury. This icy condition was allegedly allowed to exist due to the negligence of the defendants and their employees in that they failed to clear the snow and ice from their parking lot. The plaintiff claims monetary damages within the jurisdiction of the court, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV18-6070769-S. Filed Jan. 31. Merrill Manufacturing Co., Storm Lake, Iowa. Filed by Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Montpelier, Vermont. Plaintiff’s attorney: Blackburn & O’Hara LLC, Windsor Locks. Action: The plaintiff has brought this insurance suit against the defendant alleging that it sold a hose bib valve, which was installed on insured premises owned by the plaintiff. A leak occurred on the premises, allegedly due to the negligence of the defendant in that it failed to properly manufacture the valve. This allegedly caused the plaintiff to be forced to pay out damages. The plaintiff claims money damages, costs and such other relief as the court may deem appropriate and just. Case no. FBT-CV186070812-S. Filed Feb. 1. Putnam Meat Market, Stamford. Filed by Porky’s Product Inc., Port Carteret, New Jersey. Plaintiff’s attorney: Gesmonde, Pietrosimone & Sgrignari LLC, Hamden. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for a credit account. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding principal balance of $11,868 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, pre-judgment statutory interest, court costs and such other relief as in law or equity this court may deem just. Case no. FBT-CV186070847-S. Filed Feb. 2. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., Hartford. Filed by Frank Bell and Faith Thergood, Bridgeport. Plaintiffs’ attorney: Nicholas R. Nesi, East Haven. Action: The plaintiffs have brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendant alleging that they collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiffs allege that their injuries are the legal responsibilities of their insurance company and related parties, the defendant. The plaintiffs claim money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. FBTCV18-6070818-S. Filed Feb. 2.

The Hanover Insurance Co., Hartford. Filed by Hanna Rotonto, Stratford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Rosenberg, Miller, Hite and Morilla LLC, Stratford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendant alleging that she collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of her insurance company, the defendant. The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. FBTCV18-6070777-S. Filed Jan. 31. United Properties Ltd., Fairfield. Filed by Melissa Rivera, Derby. Plaintiff’s attorney: The Cotter Law Firm LLC, Stratford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendant alleging that she was hit by a closing door on property owned by the defendant and sustained injury. This dangerous condition was allegedly allowed to exist due to the negligence of the defendant and its employees in that they failed to maintain the premises in question and failed to inspect the door. The plaintiff claims monetary damages within the jurisdiction of the court, exclusive of interest and costs. Case no. FBT-CV18-6070816-S. Filed Feb. 2.

Trademarc Construction Inc., Darien. Filed by Nordic Builders Inc., Ridgefield. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Office of Kevin P. Chamberlin, Danbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it had failed to properly install a cedar roof on the plaintiff’s home. It also allegedly failed to comply with building guidelines regarding the use of stainless steel fasteners, which must now be removed and replaced. The plaintiff claims money damages, court costs and such other damages the court deems proper. Case no. DBD-CV186025176-S. Filed Jan. 31.

Stamford Superior Court All Seasons Lawncare Inc., et al., Stamford. Filed by Totilo & Company LLC, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Offices of Peter V. Lathouris LLC. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for accounting services provided. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding balance of $34,150 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, post-judgment interest and court costs. Case no. FST-CV18-6034873-S. Filed Jan. 30.

United Services Automobile Association, Hartford. Filed by Elenis Savvoulides, Norwalk. Plaintiff’s attorney: Faxon Law Group LLC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendant alleging that she collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that her injuries are the legal responsibilities of her insurance company, the defendant. The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. FBTCV18-6070846-S. Filed Feb. 2.

Amica Mutual Insurance Co., et al., Hartford. Filed by Jack Orchulli, Darien. Plaintiff’s attorney: Zeldes, Needle and Cooper PC, Bridgeport. Action: The plaintiff has brought this motor vehicle suit against the defendants alleging that he collided with an underinsured motorist and suffered injury. The insurance policy carried by the underinsured motorist is inadequate to fully compensate for the damages. The plaintiff alleges that his injuries are the legal responsibilities of his insurance company and related parties, the defendants. The plaintiff claims money damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs and such other relief as in law or equity may apply. Case no. FSTCV18-6034886-S. Filed Jan. 31.

Danbury Superior Court

Dragon Way LLC, et al., Danbury. Filed by TBF Financial LLC, Deerfield, Illinois. Plaintiff’s attorney: Jacobs & Rozich LLC, New Haven. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for loans given to them. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding principal balance of $23,785 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, attorney’s fees, interest, court costs and such other relief as the court deems fair, just and reasonable. Case no. FSTCV18-6034821-S. Filed Jan. 29.

Connecticut Family Orthopedics PC, Danbury. Filed by Aon Physical Therapy & Wellness PLLC, et al., Brewster, New York. Plaintiffs’ attorney: Collins Hannafin PC. Action: The plaintiffs have brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it breached its contract by soliciting employees of the defendants. The plaintiffs have allegedly been damaged by losing valuable employees. The plaintiffs claim money damages, punitive damages, attorney’s fees, court costs and such other and further relief as may be deemed just and appropriate by the court. Case no. DBD-CV18-6025158-S. Filed Jan. 30.

Facts & Figures Home Solutions, Norwalk. Filed by Ring’s End Inc., Darien. Plaintiff’s attorney: John P. Regan, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for goods provided. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding balance of $13,602 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, post-judgment interest, attorney’s fees, court costs and such other relief as the court deems fair and equitable. Case no. FST-CV186034876-S. Filed Jan. 30. Larkin Business Center Condominium Association Inc., Stamford. Filed by Yankee Gas Services Co., Windsor. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Offices of Alexander G. Snyder LLC, Waterbury. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendant alleging that it had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for utility services provided. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding balance of $18,783 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages, post-judgment interest and court costs. Case no. FST-CV18-6034870-S. Filed Jan. 30. Premier Remodeling & Renovations LLC, et al., Ridgefield. Filed by Ring’s End Inc., Darien. Plaintiff’s attorney: John P. Regan, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they had failed to make timely payments to the plaintiff for goods and services delivered. The plaintiff has declared the entire outstanding balance of $42,612 due and has made a demand for the balance, yet has not received payment. The plaintiff claims money damages and court costs. Case no. FST-CV186034860-S. Filed Jan. 30. Schindler Elevator Corp., et al., Morristown, New Jersey. Filed by Angel Uchupailla, Stamford. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Offices of John J. LaCava LLC, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this personal injury suit against the defendants alleging that she was hit by a car owned by the defendants and driven by an employee of the defendants during the course of their work. The defendants were allegedly negligent in that they operated their motor vehicle at an unreasonable rate of speed. The plaintiff claims monetary damages in excess of $15,000, exclusive of interests and costs, and such other relief as the court deems just and proper. Case no. FST-CV18-6034841-S. Filed Jan. 30.

Federal District Court AETNA Inc., et al., Hartford. Filed by Dr. Eli Enzlicht-Sprei. Plaintiff’s attorney: Levy & Korsinksy LLP, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this SEC act suit against the defendants alleging that the defendants agreed to be merged into CVS. The defendants allegedly asked the shareholders to vote in favor of the proposed transactions based on materially misleading and incomplete registration statements. The plaintiff seeks to enjoin the shareholders vote on the proposed transactions, unless said material information is provided to shareholders and claims costs, attorney’s fees, expert fees and such other and further relief as may pertain in law or equity. Case no. 3:18-cv-00176JCH. Filed Jan. 31. FOM USA Inc., et al., Medina, Ohio. Filed by Terek South Dakota Inc., Redmond, Washington. Plaintiff’s attorney: Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky, Stamford. Action: The plaintiff has brought this breach of contract suit against the defendants alleging that they purchased a milling from the defendants, which allegedly did not perform properly. The defendants refused to correct the deficiencies in the machine, despite being told to do so. The plaintiff claims damages of $3.2 million, costs, interest, attorney’s fees, prejudgment interest, post-judgment interest and such other and further relief as may be justified in law or equity. Case no. 3:18-cv-00172-WWE. Filed Jan. 30. Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada. Filed by Matthew Parker. Plaintiff’s attorney: Law Offices of Ian O. Smith LLC, Tolland. Action: The plaintiff has brought this employee benefit suit against the defendant alleging that it unlawfully terminated the long-term disability benefits of the defendant. The defendant allegedly disregarded the doctor’s descriptions, which the plaintiff had. The plaintiff claims monthly disability benefits, prejudgment interest, costs, attorney’s fees and such other and further relief as may pertain in law or equity. Case no. 3:18-cv-00182-SRU. Filed Feb. 1. Swiss Colony LLC, Monroe, Wisconsin. Filed by Loretta Quick, New London. Plaintiff’s attorney: Lemberg Law LLC, Wilton. Action: The plaintiff has brought this telecommunications suit against the defendant alleging that it called the plaintiff’s cell phone using an automatic dialing system in an attempt to collect an alleged debt, in breach of law. The plaintiff claims statutory damages, treble damages, costs, attorney’s fees, punitive damages and such other and further relief as may pertain in law or equity. Case no. 3:18-cv-00196-VAB. Filed Feb. 2.

DEEDS COMMITTEE DEEDS Aldridge, Robert B., et al., Danbury. Appointed committee: Anthony J. Yorio Jr., Danbury. Property: 11-13 E. Pembroke Road, Unit B, Danbury. Amount: $115,001. Docket no. DBD-CV17-6021094-S. Filed Jan. 23. Kurowski, Rudy, et al., Shelton. Appointed committee: George R. Temple, Shelton. Property: 120 Isinglass Road, Shelton. Amount: $220,500. Docket no. AAN-CV-176023081-S. Filed Jan. 24. Nicastro, Alison S. and Michael Strong, Fairfield. Appointed committee: David J. Laudano, Fairfield. Property: 779 Riverside Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $333,247. Docket no. FBT-cv-12-6027327-S. Filed Jan. 17.

Benchmark Trading Ltd., Bridgeport. Seller: ACT Builders Inc. and Royal 9T LLC, Monroe. Property: 2600 Park Ave., Unit 8-G, Bridgeport. Amount: $150,000. Filed Feb. 1.

Rock Hall Gardens LLC, Bridgeport. Seller: Sandoinvestments LLC, Bridgeport. Property: 200 Woodmont Ave., Unit 117, Bridgeport. Amount: $136,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Zhingri Homes LLC, Danbury. Seller: Richard A. Mozer and Patricia D. Mozer, Danbury. Property: 16 Blaine St., Danbury. Amount: $183,000. Filed Jan. 25.

CGC Properties LLC, Bridgeport. Seller: K Brothers Properties & Investdevelopment LLC, Bridgeport. Property: 138 Chestnut St., Bridgeport. Amount: $28,000. Filed Jan. 25.

RS 125 Field Point Road LLC, Miami Beach, Florida. Seller: Peterson Equities Ltd., Hudson, Florida. Property: 71 Soundview Drive, 115 and 125 Field Point Road, Greenwich. Amount: $8.2 million. Filed Jan. 22.

RESIDENTIAL

Connecticut Strategic Properties LLC, Trumbull. Seller: Robert A. Snyder, Bridgeport. Property: 26 Sidney St., Bridgeport. Amount: $1,500. Filed Jan. 30.

RSJ LLC, Trumbull. Seller: Chintapalli Reddy and Jyothi Chintapalli, Trumbull. Property: 154 Terry Place, Bridgeport. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 30.

East of North LLC, Greenwich. Seller: Christine B. Holliday and Shaun P. Holliday, Greenwich. Property: 180 Stanwich Road, Greenwich. Amount: $2.1 million. Filed Feb. 1.

RSJ LLC, Trumbull. Seller: Chintapalli Reddy and Jyothi Chintapalli, Trumbull. Property: 198 Hansen Ave., Bridgeport. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 30.

COMMERCIAL

Insource East Properties Inc., Morris. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 976 Wood Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $115,000. Filed Jan. 24.

108 Pequonnock LLC, New Rochelle, New York. Seller: 62 Mountain LLC, Derby. Property: 108110 Pequonnock St., Bridgeport. Amount: $135,900. Filed Jan. 23.

J. Makovsky Corp., Stamford. Seller: Jane Proda Weinstein, Fairfield. Property: 70 Bailey Road, Fairfield. Amount: $305,000. Filed Feb. 2.

1170 Hulls Farm Road LLC, Wellington, Florida. Seller: U.S. Bank NA, Coppell, Texas. Property: 1170 Hulls Farm Road, Fairfield. Amount: $2.2 million. Filed Jan. 24.

Maria USA Inc., New York, New York. Seller: Maiden Lane Associates Ltd., Greenwich. Property: 100 Putnam Green, Greenwich. Amount: $5.2 million. Filed Jan. 29.

1289 FFBR LLC, Franklin, Massachusetts. Seller: 1289 Fairfield Beach Road LLC, Manchester, New Hampshire. Property: 1289 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield. Amount: $850,500. Filed Jan. 31.

Marquee Properties LLC, Fairfield. Seller: D&D Inc., Fairfield. Property: 116 Davis Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $190,000. Filed Jan. 29.

1294 Stratford Ave. LLC, Stratford. Seller: Robert Jackson, Bridgeport. Property: 1294 Stratford Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $199,500. Filed Jan. 24. 2226 Fairfield Ave LLC, Bridgeport. Seller: Demetrios Andriotis, Trumbull. Property: 2226 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $455,000. Filed Jan. 29. 2261 North Benson Road LLC, Shelton. Seller: Lisa M. Coconides and Karen M. Wise, Fairfield. Property: 2261 N. Benson Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $420,000. Filed Jan. 19. 76 Sanford Avenue Associates LLC, New Canaan. Seller: Robert J. Vontell Jr. and Bonnie Ann Vontell, Easton. Property: 105 Ridgefield Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 30. Atlantic Coleman LLC, Westport. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 325 Lafayette St., Unit 4205, Bridgeport. Amount: $84,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Coppell, Texas. Seller: Jeanmarie Jelenik and Annette F. Pizzuto, Shelton. Property: 108 Country Place, Shelton. Amount: $194,510. Filed Jan. 22. Neto Construction LLC, Trumbull. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 90 Kaechele Place, Bridgeport. Amount: $137,000. Filed Jan. 22. Noble Estates LLC, Brooklyn, New York. Seller: Tommaso A. Donfranceso and Patricia Donfranceso, Bridgeport. Property: 797-799 Huntington Road, Bridgeport. Amount: $95,000. Filed Jan. 23. PIA Capital LLC, Westport. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 11 Windsor Place, Norwalk. Amount: $336,000. Filed Jan. 25. Pinnacle Peak Inc., Shelton. Seller: Robert A. Webber, Fairfield. Property: 1159 Banks North Road, Parcel B, Fairfield. Amount: $475,000. Filed Feb. 2.

Rubin Wood LLC, Fairfield. Seller: Jeffrey H. Lichtman, Bridgeport. Property: 420 Wood Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $165,000. Filed Jan. 30. Sana Properties LLC, Woodbridge. Seller: Dajama Properties LLC, Trumbull. Property: 4699 Main St., Unit 1-B4, Bridgeport. Amount: $120,000. Filed Jan. 24. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. Seller: U.S. Bank NA, Owensboro, Kentucky. Property: 58-60 Westfield Ave., Bridgeport. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 23. Southside Trust, Shelton. Seller: Water’s Edge of Shelton LLC, Shelton. Property: 500 River Road, Home 7, Shelton. Amount: $650,000. Filed Jan. 17. State of Connecticut, Shelton. Seller: 112 Huntington Street LLC, Shelton. Property: Present Lane Street, Shelton. Amount: $1,500. Filed Jan. 12. Suburban Investment Partners LLC, Darien. Seller: Marie D. Kimodikis, New York, New York. Property: Lot 110, Euclid Avenue, Fairfield. Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 24. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank NA, Fort Mill, South Carolina. Property: 1102 Woodland Hills Drive, Unit 1102, Trumbull. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 16. Trumbull Developers LLC, New York, New York. Seller: Canon Solutions America Inc., Melville, New York. Property: 100 Oakview Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $4.5 million. Filed Jan. 16.

FCBJ

Akther, Nazma and Md Tariquel Islam, Bridgeport. Seller: Masudul Hoque, Bronx, New York. Property: 1179-1183 Hancock Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $260,000. Filed Feb. 1. Ali, Asra, New Haven. Seller: Marc Herman and Alexandra Herman, Trumbull. Property: 11 Sallyann Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $370,000. Filed Jan. 12. Almonte, Orlando D., Trumbull. Seller: David Sears and Ann M. Sears, Trumbull. Property: 106 Blackstone Road, Trumbull. Amount: $395,000. Filed Jan. 10. Alperovich, Gwynne and Daniel Alperovich, Fairfield. Seller: Lois Ravage Mass, Fairfield. Property: 10 Eagle Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $360,000. Filed Jan. 17. Alvarado, Rosangelica, Bridgeport. Seller: Daniel Pizarro, Bridgeport. Property: 430 Truman St., Bridgeport. Amount: $240,000. Filed Jan. 22. Alves, Maria and Firyad Quadir, Stratford. Seller: Marc & Dotti Realty LLC, Wethersfield. Property: 1359 Park Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $162,600. Filed Jan. 22. Anacreon, Keith A. and Joan L. Karatzas, Shelton. Seller: Lawrence J. Ferrigno, Shelton. Property: 35 Vistas at White Hill, Shelton. Amount: $685,000. Filed Jan. 8. Anderson, Danika and Eric Anderson, Greenwich. Seller: Stella A. Talar, Ossining, New York. Property: 15 Dale Drive, Greenwich. Amount: $479,000. Filed Jan. 22. Anderson, Samantha I. and David Anderson, Fairfield. Seller: Valentin Luca and Olguta S. Luca, Fairfield. Property: 1157 Melville Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $555,000. Filed Feb. 2. Angelone, Cristina, Trumbull. Seller: Jack Testani and Suzanne S. Testani, Trumbull. Property: 50 Cranbury Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $475,000. Filed Feb. 1. Aquino, Anna Lynn, Greenwich. Seller: Jane B. Maxwell, Greenwich. Property: 50 Lafayette Place, Unit 2-H, Greenwich. Amount: $310,000. Filed Jan. 25. Assis, Alexander, Bridgeport. Seller: Wells Fargo Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 149 Harmony St., Bridgeport. Amount: $152,000. Filed Jan. 26.

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Facts & Figures Baez, Nereida Quintero and Patrick LeBlanc, Greenwich. Seller: Third Wind Homes LLC, Greenwich. Property: Lot 1, Map 4660, Greenwich. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Jan. 22.

Capozziello, Dean James, Bridgeport. Seller: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Wilmington, Del. Property: 60 Duane Place, Bridgeport. Amount: $180,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Ball, Stephen F. W. and Courtney Shea Ball, Stamford. Seller: John J. Bedosky and Rosemary C. Bedosky, Stamford. Property: 28 Fairway Drive, Stamford. Amount: $850,000. Filed Jan. 24.

Carde, Dennis, Trumbull. Seller: Dennis Greenwald, Trumbull. Property: 2203 Huntington Turnpike, Trumbull. Amount: $590,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Barry, Lucy Mele and Ryan Barry, Stamford. Seller: Michael T. Bologna and Alice Ann Fitzpatrick, Fairfield. Property: 125 Somerset Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $560,000. Filed Feb. 1. Beke, Sherrie A. and William J. Beke, Norwalk. Seller: William J. Beke, Norwalk. Property: 14 Folwell Road, Norwalk. For no consideration paid. Filed Jan. 25. Bethea, Dara, Bronx, New York. Seller: Christopher Buglione, Shelton. Property: 145 Canal St., Unit 512, Shelton. Amount: $172,000. Filed Jan. 24. Billings, Margaret and James Billings, Fairfield. Seller: 62 Southportwoods Drive LLC, Norwalk. Property: G-8-67 Southport Woods Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $30,000. Filed Jan. 31. Bochanis, Jordan, Stratford. Seller: Eric N. Treschuk and Nicole L. Kenney, Fairfield. Property: 172 Mayweed Road, Fairfield. Amount: $470,000. Filed Jan. 17. Boisvert, Alessandra Odelie, Shelton. Seller: Philips Custom Homes LLC, Oxford. Property: 5 George St., Shelton. Amount: $350,000. Filed Jan. 18. Brohel, Susan and John T. Brohel, Fairfield. Seller: Kevin Murphy and Joanne Murphy, Fairfield. Property: 80 Parkway, Fairfield. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Jan. 22. Bunay, Segundo, Bridgeport. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 48-50 Bennett St., Bridgeport. Amount: $261,975. Filed Jan. 29. Bykowski, Cezary, Stratford. Seller: Ely Properties LLC, Trumbull. Property: 5 Scott Lane, Trumbull. Amount: $285,000. Filed Jan. 25. Camarota, Cheryl and Nicole Yannieh, Bridgeport. Seller: Allen G. Wittert and Celia Dyer, Austin, Texas. Property: 63 Nichols Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $346,000. Filed Jan. 18. Camille, Jude and Paul Michelle Mabial, Bridgeport. Seller: Valerie D. Lindsay, Bridgeport. Property: 721 Platt St., Bridgeport. Amount: $218,500. Filed Jan. 24.

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Carpenter, Paul, Bridgeport. Seller: Demetrios Karavitis, Fairfield. Property: 1636 Post Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1.5 million. Filed Jan. 31. Castro, Ana C. Guzman, Norwalk. Seller: Elyse L. Greenberg, Bridgeport. Property: 120 Huntington Turnpike, Unit 708, Bridgeport. Amount: $59,000. Filed Feb. 1. Chann, Bien and Sopheary Pha, Bridgeport. Seller: Jason Faucher, Bridgeport. Property: 79 Robert St., Bridgeport. Amount: $150,000. Filed Jan. 24. Charles, Renold, Brooklyn, New York. Seller: John Bajda, Stratford. Property: 139 Sage Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $247,200. Filed Jan. 29. Chizmadia, Kelli C. and James P. Chizmadia, Stratford. Seller: Douglas Shildneck and Diana L. Schildneck, Trumbull. Property: 2941 Nicholas Ave., Trumbull. Amount: $500,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Diez, Elena Isabel Martinez and Sergio Ezarna Meabe, Geneva, Switzerland. Seller: Annabelle Marvin and Jeffrey Marvin, Greenwich. Property: 59 Hillside Road, Greenwich. Amount: $2.8 million. Filed Jan. 29. Dixon, Fannai G., Bridgeport. Seller: Christian H. Gutierrez and April Szarmach, Bridgeport. Property: 390 Priscilla St., Bridgeport. Amount: $156,000. Filed Jan. 30. Eldred, Tricia C. and Daniel J. Huebel, Hasting-on-Hudson, New York. Seller: John T. Brohel and Susan P. Brohel, Fairfield. Property: Lot 14, Maps 163 and 539, Fairfield. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 26. Elliott, Heidi and Yuri Novitsky, Cleveland, Ohio. Seller: Seth Bergstein and Alexandra Bergstein, Greenwich. Property: Flower Lane, Greenwich. Amount: $3.5 million. Filed Jan. 25. Falcon, Jessica Marisa and William Alexander Falcon, Trumbull. Seller: D. Riccio Properties LLC, Monroe. Property: Lots 294, 295 and 296, Map 221, Fairfield. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 22. Fashola, Nahema and Oladayo Sule, Trumbull. Seller: Daniel D. Riccio and Elizabeth M. Riccio, Trumbull. Property: 17 Rocky Ridge Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $295,000. Filed Jan. 19.

Corniffe, Millicent Thomas, Stratford. Seller: Margaret Brelsford, Bridgeport. Property: 409 East Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $97,000. Filed Jan. 30.

Fennelly, Faith, Bridgeport. Seller: Tatyana Stepanova, Bridgeport. Property: 262 Broad St., Bridgeport. Amount: $115,000. Filed Feb. 1.

Daniele, Nicholas and Cayla C. Allard, Trumbull. Seller: Nigel L. Edwards, Trumbull. Property: 7 Parkway Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $382,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Ferreira, Esteffany Bruno, Bridgeport. Seller: Beth G. Reich, Trumbull. Property: 40 Lafayette Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $470,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Danielson, Gary L., Alpharetta, Georgia. Seller: Leon Shiferman and Luba Shiferman, Boca Raton, Florida. Property: 34 Bunker Hill Circle, Shelton. Amount: $430,000. Filed Jan. 26.

Fitzpatrick, Alice A. and Michael T. Bologna, Fairfield. Seller: Lisa Roland, Fairfield. Property: 245 Unqouwa Road, Unit 133, Fairfield. Amount: $400,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Dario, Mitchell, Millburn, New Jersey. Seller: 169 Woodrow Avenue LLC, Fairfield. Property: 171 Woodrow Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $790,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Garidis, Ilias and Petra WetzigGaridis, Fairfield. Seller: Justine McBride Fellows and Seth McBride, Fairfield. Property: 645 Springer Road, Fairfield. Amount: $910,000. Filed Jan. 30.

David, Gillian May, Stratford. Seller: Beverly Moncrieffe, Bridgeport. Property: 200 Westfield Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $160,000. Filed Jan. 22. Denton, Neil, Fairfield. Seller: John W. Short Jr. and Lia F. Short, Fairfield. Property: 368 Round Hill Road, Fairfield. Amount: $450,000. Filed Jan. 16.

FCBJ

Gordon, Judith and Albert B. Gordon Jr., Greenwich. Seller: Judith O. Gordon, Greenwich. Property: Lot 1, Wesskum Wood Road, Greenwich. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 30. Gordon, Regina and Kevin Lang, Shelton. Seller: Stratford LLC, Brooklyn, New York. Property: 23-27 Elmwood Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $220,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Kent, Richard, Stamford. Seller: Brougham LP, Odessa, Florida. Property: 85 Camp Ave., Unit 9M, Stamford. Amount: $392,500. Filed Jan. 25.

Martinez, Joel and Victor M. Martinez, Bridgeport. Seller: Antoinette D. Hill, Monroe. Property: 263-265 Judson Place, Bridgeport. Amount: $258,000. Filed Jan. 22.

Morales, Zuleika and Adam Morales, Bronx, New York. Seller: LPCJR LLC, Trumbull. Property: 11 Woodcrest Ave., Trumbull. Amount: $376,000. Filed Jan. 10.

Khursigara, Gus, Fairfield. Seller: Anya Kishinevsky, Easton. Property: 814 S. Pine Creek, Unit 2, Fairfield. Amount: $747,500. Filed Jan. 31.

Matevich, Nicholas and Lu Li, Rye Brook, New York. Seller: Gerald Gargiulo, Stamford. Property: 36 Northwind Drive, Stamford. Amount: $650,000. Filed Jan. 26.

Munia, Aneta and Sebastian Munia, Stratford. Seller: The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee, Coppell, Texas. Property: 17 Indian Road, Trumbull. Amount: $270,375. Filed Jan. 18.

Kim, Kilja, Stamford. Seller: S&M RE LLC, Rye, New York. Property: 40 Cassidy St., Greenwich. Amount: $799,000. Filed Jan. 31. Krishnamoorthy, Balaji, Stamford. Seller: 444 Bedford Street, Stamford. Property: 444 Bedford St., Unit 3R, Stamford. Amount: $240,000. Filed Jan. 25. Landolt, Jennifer L., Brooklyn, New York. Seller: David E. Anderson and Samantha I. Anderson, Fairfield. Property: 245 Homeland St., Fairfield. Amount: $490,000. Filed Feb. 2. Langhorne, Tristan, Greenwich. Seller: David A. Langhorne, Greenwich. Property: Lot 8, Map 5632, Greenwich. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 23. Lee, Daryn, Greenwich. Seller: Pamela L. Rush, Greenwich. Property: 150 Prospect St., Unit 6, Greenwich. Amount: $541,500. Filed Jan. 31. Lindsay, Cirt, Elmont, New York. Seller: Alexandra Munoz, Wallingford. Property: 368 Platt St., Bridgeport. Amount: $255,000. Filed Jan. 30. Livanos, Alexis, Scarsdale, New York. Seller: Giles Goodburn and Zoe Goodburn, Greenwich. Property: 24 Decatur St., Unit 2, Greenwich. Amount: $600,000. Filed Jan. 22. Ma, Lin, Bethany. Seller: Toll Connecticut Limited Partnership, Newtown. Property: 560 River Road, Unit 29, Shelton. Amount: $473,006. Filed Jan. 17.

Mato, Anton and Eduart Mato, Bridgeport. Seller: U.S. Bank NA, Houston, Texas. Property: 880 Hancock Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $225,000. Filed Jan. 24. Maxis-Pierre, Nicole and Mike W. Pierre, Newark, New Jersey. Seller: Richard M. Seferi, Trumbull. Property: 5245 Madison Ave., Trumbull. Amount: $428,000. Filed Jan. 22. McBride, Andre, Bridgeport. Seller: Robert A. Hull and Kimberly A. Fanning, Red Oak, Texas. Property: 586 Wayne St., Bridgeport. Amount: $154,000. Filed Jan. 29. McCaddon, Ashley Niciole and Oliver Murray McCaddon, Stratford. Seller: Dennis F. Hayes and Karen T. Hayes, Trumbull. Property: 27 Glenarden Road, Trumbull. Amount: $545,000. Filed Jan. 16. McDowell, Layla E., Bridgeport. Seller: John Valakas, Bridgeport. Property: Lot 58, Butler Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $147,900. Filed Jan. 31. McEvoy, Eugene and Walter McEvoy, Bridgeport. Seller: The Bridgeport Wilmot Apartment Inc., Bridgeport. Property: 630 Carroll Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $17,000. Filed Jan. 23. McGeen, Tammy Marie and Kevin Daniel McGee, Trumbull. Seller: MTM Classic Home Builders Ltd., Bridgeport. Property: 13 Squire Court, Trumbull. Amount: $715,000. Filed Jan. 16.

Magnano, Julie, Trumbull. Seller: Susan Sterling Richards, Trumbull. Property: 333 Stonebridge Lane, Unit 24, Trumbull. Amount: $320,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Melf, Lawrence C. and Craig David Thorne, Stamford. Seller: Michael Rosenthal and Hillary Rosenthal, Stamford. Property: Palmer Hill, Unit 104, Stamford. Amount: $782,000. Filed Jan. 26.

Maguire, Ashley and Thomas Maguire, Fairfield. Seller: James F. Slatky and Cheryl A. Slatky, Fairfield. Property: 81 Ridgedale Road, Fairfield. Amount: $620,000. Filed Jan. 17.

Mendez, Cecilia and Hector Mendez, Bridgeport. Seller: Virgilouisa LLC, West Haven. Property: 105 Louisiana Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $78,000. Filed Jan. 23.

Mahendran, Caushalya and Haresh Mahendran, Trumbull. Seller: Haresh Mahendran, Trumbull. Property: 59 Wilson Ave., Trumbull. For no consideration paid. Filed Jan. 23. Marron, Nydia L. and Ronald H. Marron, Stamford. Seller: Warren Heller and Carole Heller, Fairfield. Property: 141 Twin Lanes Road, Fairfield. Amount: $602,500. Filed Jan. 22.

Michael, Maureen and Laurence Michael, Stamford. Seller: Karen Lopes and Christine Engel, Fairfield. Property: Lot 23, Map 3727, Fairfield. Amount: $499,000. Filed Jan. 17. Montesano, Joseph, Port Chester, New York. Seller: 15 Raleigh Road LLC, Southport. Property: 15 Raleigh Road, Bridgeport. Amount: $210,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Munoz, Juan P., Danbury. Seller: Dennis K. Witzke, Sherman. Property: 8 Union Ave., Danbury. For an unknown amount paid. Filed Jan. 23. Neumann, Cory W., New Fairfield. Seller: Richard M. Gallagher, New Fairfield. Property: 113 State Route 37, New Fairfield. Amount: $412,000. Filed Jan. 26. Newell, Endra and Donald Newell, Bridgeport. Seller: Richard Sterling and Patricia Sterling, Shelton. Property: 104 Big Horn Road, Shelton. Amount: $350,000. Filed Jan. 19. Nye, Robin, Fairfield. Seller: 5 Mellow LLC, Shelton. Property: 5 and 9 Meadow St., Fairfield. Amount: $675,000. Filed Jan. 16. Olson, Nicole and Jacob Olson, Bridgeport. Seller: Helen A. Jankoski, Pawcatuck. Property: 172 Cedar Road, Fairfield. Amount: $375,000. Filed Feb. 1. Pardo, Yeeman C., Trumbull. Seller: Willis A. Reinke and Carol J. Reinke, New Fairfield. Property: 5444 Main St., Trumbull. Amount: $315,000. Filed Jan. 17. Pawlyk, Rachel Helen, Shelton. Seller: John M. Pawlyk, Shelton. Property: Lot 1, Map of Salâ€™s Acres, Shelton. Amount: $290,000. Filed Jan. 22. Peh, Beng Huat, Bridgeport. Seller: Regency Condominium Association Inc., Bridgeport. Property: Unit 10-B of Regency Condominium, Bridgeport. Amount: $73,000. Filed Jan. 22. Pereira, Luzia S. and Ilidio R. Pereira, Trumbull. Seller: Julie M. Pepin, Trumbull. Property: 604 Booth Hill Road, Trumbull. Amount: $525,000. Filed Jan. 25. Pompa, Robin and William F. Pompa, Kingston Chinor. Seller: Peter L. Altieri and Sandra W. Altieri, Fairfield. Property: Lot 3, Map 3989, Fairfield. Amount: $1.3 million. Filed Feb. 2. Prabhu, Maya G. and Robert M. Appleton, Milford. Seller: Pamela Parker, Fairfield. Property: 1525 Jennings Road, Fairfield. Amount: $1 million. Filed Feb. 1.

Facts & Figures Sheikh, Hasain, Easton. Seller: RCN Capital Funding LLC, South Windsor. Property: 167 Sherwood Ave., Bridgeport. Amount: $56,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Tredway, Chad, White Plains, New York. Seller: Alexander Christon and Christine I. Gould, Fairfield. Property: 184 S. Gate Lane, Fairfield. Amount: $2.3 million. Filed Feb. 1.

Silkovic, Saban, Stamford. Seller: Kwang Hae Jeong, Bridgeport. Property: 44 Worth St., Unit 46, Bridgeport. Amount: $140,500. Filed Jan. 29.

Truscott, Alice Pak and Kyle Marshall Truscott, Fairfield. Seller: Michael Soubotin, Fairfield. Property: 325 Suburban Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $319,000. Filed Jan. 29.

Silva, Manuel Da, Shelton. Seller: Domingos Rua, Bridgeport. Property: 175 Clark St., Bridgeport. Amount: $35,000. Filed Jan. 23. Silwonik, Katherine, Huntington. Seller: Carol Richard, Shelton. Property: 134 Howe Ave., Shelton. Amount: $175,000. Filed Jan. 29. Slenko, Julie and Andre Slenko, Fairfield. Seller: Dinesh S. Shah and Anila Shah, Fairfield. Property: 28 Mayfair Road, Fairfield. Amount: $535,000. Filed Jan. 29. Smith, Tyisha M., Bridgeport. Seller: Alejandro Rodriguez and Patricia Rodriguez, Shelton. Property: 115 Big Horn Road, Shelton. Amount: $395,000. Filed Jan. 16. Sullivan, Frank, Bridgeport. Seller: Raymond D. Scinto, Bridgeport. Property: 80 Cartright St., Unit 3L, Bridgeport. Amount: $32,000. Filed Jan. 23. Swagerty, Ronelle P. and Mark R. Swagerty, Bridgeport. Seller: Lisie Orjuela and Hernando Orjuela, Mamaroneck, New York. Property: 320-322 Wayne St., Bridgeport. Amount: $285,000. Filed Jan. 30. Taluy, Suzanne, Norwalk. Seller: Thomas P. Fallon and Rose B. Fallon, Fairfield. Property: 558 Villa Ave., Fairfield. Amount: $349,000. Filed Jan. 26. Tang, Danhuan and Wenjun Dai, Fairfield. Seller: John D. Kippins, St. Albans, New York. Property: 3370 Madison Ave., Unit 9A, Bridgeport. Amount: $71,000. Filed Jan. 22. Tartaglia, John, Ridgefield. Seller: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., West Palm Beach, Florida. Property: 35 Tudor Lane, Trumbull. Amount: $281,000. Filed Jan. 29. Tobiasiewicz, Ryszard, Stamford. Seller: Melvin A. Siegel and Ann P. Siegel, Stamford. Property: Map 7388, Stamford. Amount: $482,500. Filed Jan. 26. Tofinchio, Garrett K., Shelton. Seller: Land Sail Properties LLC, Stratford. Property: 58 Hilltop Drive, Shelton. Amount: $260,000. Filed Jan. 31. Topar, Bradley Alan, Bridgeport. Seller: Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 823 Ellsworth St., Bridgeport. Amount: $125,895. Filed Jan. 24.

Tuan, Chen Chi Teh and L-An Kong, Trumbull. Seller: Chen Chi Tuan, Trumbull. Property: 65 Salem Road, Trumbull. For no consideration paid. Filed Jan. 26. Uyekliong, Marc, Bridgeport. Seller: 215 Village at Black Rock LLC, Red Bank, New Jersey. Property: 3250 Fairfield Ave., Unit 215, Bridgeport. Amount: $195,000. Filed Jan. 29. Valeriano, Juaquim, Bridgeport. Seller: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. Property: 99 Pitt St., Bridgeport. Amount: $105,000. Filed Jan. 29. Vazquez, Lisa, Fairfield. Seller: Geoffrey Carlos and Joseph Marcellino, Stratford. Property: 618 Clarke St., Bridgeport. Amount: $210,000. Filed Jan. 31. Vega, Bersaida N., Brookfield. Seller: John E. Macchia and Wendy M. Macchia, Fairfield. Property: 30 Eastfield Circle, Fairfield. Amount: $364,500. Filed Jan. 29. Voka, Anila and Marash Voka, Fairfield. Seller: 100 Nepas Road LLC, Fairfield. Property: 70 Nepas Road, Fairfield. Amount: $310,000. Filed Jan. 25.

Worflar, Nicole A. and Jason M. Worflar, Fairfield. Seller: David Schemelia and Teresa Schemelia, Woodbridge, New Jersey. Property: Lot 6, Map 179, Fairfield. Amount: $360,000. Filed Jan. 16. Zamorano, Catalina and Diego Cordero, Greenwich. Seller: Jennifer Haggerty and Sean F. Haggerty, Greenwich. Property: 19 St. Claire Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $1.8 million. Filed Feb. 1.

FORECLOSURES Alexandre, Lise and Edes Alexandre. Creditor: Pacific Union Financial LLC. Property: 38-40 Pacific St., Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 23.

JUDGMENTS Anderson, Lars, Danbury. $400 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by Flanagan & Peat, Danbury. Property: 162 Great Plain Road, Danbury. Filed Jan. 24. Barry, Robert John, Bridgeport. $470 in favor of Connecticut Heart Group PC, Branford, by Eric H. Opin, Milford. Property: 1413 Old Town Road, Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 29. Blackwell, Sandy A., et al., Bridgeport. $2,558 in favor of Credit Acceptance Corp., Southfield, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 1686 Chopsey Hill Road, Bridgeport. Filed Feb. 2.

Nielsen, Frederick, Bridgeport. $8,601 in favor of The Southern Connecticut Gas Co., Orange, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 43 Higgins Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Feb. 2. Reilly, Mike, Trumbull. $4,782 in favor of Discover Bank, New Albany, Ohio, by Schreiber/Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 9 Pondwood Court, Trumbull. Filed Jan. 8. Santiago, Jose A., Bridgeport. $1,440 in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia., by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 25 Lansing Place, Bridgeport. Filed Feb. 2.

Berger, Sidney I., et al. Creditor: Citimortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 45 Doubling Road, Greenwich. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 30.

Carino, Kimberly, Shelton. $782 in favor of Valley Emergency Medical Services, Seymour, by Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 6 Crestwood Place, Shelton. Filed Jan. 9.

Varlamos, Konstanti H., Stamford. $1,151 in favor of Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, Norfolk, Virginia., by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 213 Blackwood Lane, Stamford. Filed Jan. 25.

Black Diamond Group LLC, et al. Creditor: Benchmark Municipal Tax Services Ltd., Bridgeport. Property: 146-148 Cowles St., Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 26.

Charles, Jacques W., Bridgeport. $10,274 in favor of Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, by Philip H. Monagan, Waterbury. Property: 84 Orchard St., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 26.

Walsh, Sean C., Bridgeport. $4,611 in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 408 Holland Road, Bridgeport. Filed Feb. 2.

Choi, Elena T., et al. Creditor: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Chicago, Illinois. Property: 479 Daniels Farm Road, Trumbull. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 25.

Duguid, Debra Marie, Trumbull. $1,553 in favor of Cavalry SPV I LLC, Valhalla, New York, by Schreiber/ Cohen LLC, Salem, New Hampshire. Property: 901 Woodland Hills Drive, Trumbull. Filed Jan. 11.

Diaz, Roberto, et al. Creditor: U.S. Bank NA, O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 145-147 Oak St., Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 25.

Voyages, James T., Norwalk. Seller: Rodolfo G. Gamboa, Norwalk. Property: Lot 11, Map 5461, Norwalk. Amount: $353,000. Filed Jan. 26.

Iqramulhoque, Saboor, et al. Creditor: Ditech Financial LLC, Tampa, Florida. Property: 1039-1041 Hancock Ave., Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 25.

Wagner, Amanda D. and Jeffrey P. Wagner, Fairfield. Seller: Lucien Investors LLC, Stratford. Property: 43 Beech St., Trumbull. Amount: $287,175. Filed Jan. 22.

Jones, Donna E., et al. Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Frederick, Maryland. Property: 130 Greenfield St., Fairfield. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 25.

Weng, Linda, Bridgeport. Seller: Kamal H. Mansour, Bridgeport. Property: 120 Huntington Turnpike, Unit 510, Bridgeport. Amount: $65,000. Filed Jan. 31.

Ogust, Catherine, et al. Creditor: Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Coppell, Texas. Property: 325 Lafayette St., Unit 3301, Bridgeport. Delinquent common charges. Filed Jan. 24.

White, Meeghan Murphy and Devin James White, Fairfield. Seller: Michael Fass and Sarah Moore Fass, Fairfield. Property: 1533 Fencerow Drive, Fairfield. Amount: $1.1 million. Filed Jan. 17.

Pinedo, Noemi, et al. Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Frederick, Maryland. Property: 415 Seltsam Road, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 22.

Woods, Jessica, Shelton. Seller: Nancy T. Miller, Shelton. Property: 615 Booth Hill Road, Shelton. Amount: $170,000. Filed Jan. 18.

Rosario, Octavio, et al. Creditor: Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Frederick, Maryland. Property: 269 Madison Terrace, Bridgeport. Mortgage default. Filed Jan. 22.

Hearne, Deborah A., Danbury. $1,059 in favor of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, by the Law Offices of Howard Lee Schiff PC, East Hartford. Property: 136 Pembroke Road, Unit 45, Danbury. Filed Jan. 25. Henning, Steven L., et al., Stamford. $2.6 million in favor of SBS Consolidated LLC, et al., Frisco, Texas, by Becker Law Offices LLC, Avon. Property: 541 Westover Road, Stamford. Filed Jan. 24. Keever, Jamie L., Bridgeport. $10,040 in favor of American Express Centurion Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah, by Mark Sank & Associates LLC, Stamford. Property: 576 Midland St., Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 30. Moore, Lois, Bridgeport. $1,817 in favor of The United Illuminating Co., New Haven, by Nair & Levin PC, Bloomfield. Property: 125 Cloverhill Ave., Bridgeport. Filed Feb. 2. Mowbray Title Search LLC, et al., Greenwich. $40,115 in favor of People’s United Bank NA, Greenwich, by Benanti & Associates, Stamford. Property: 2 Wescott Court, Greenwich. Filed Jan. 29. Myers, Gene, Bridgeport. $24,908 in favor of Montano Cigarette Candy & Tobacco Inc., by Eric H. Opin, Milford. Property: 276 Pasadena Place, Bridgeport. Filed Jan. 29.

LIENS

Hellthaler, John, et al., 59 Woodbridge Circle, Trumbull. $29,347, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 8. Hirst, Allison and Crawford Robertson, 1235 Mine Hill Road, Fairfield. $86,468, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31. Jennings, Kevin E., 93 Taunton Road, Fairfield. $83,126, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31. Keating, Paul J., 1464 Melville Ave., Fairfield. $102,531, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 23. Loboncz, Mark, 253 Seaside Ave., Apt. 2, Stamford. $115,567, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 17. Marini, Mario, 40 Sturbridge Lane, Trumbull. $10,468, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 30. Moderno, Priscila and Filipe Moderno, 6 Fuller Road, Trumbull. $26,361, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 8. Neves, Sean, 124 Park Ave., Shelton. $26,069, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 16. Omeara, Frank G., 192 Birch Road, Fairfield. $375,636, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31.

Federal Tax Liens-Filed

Pernek, Otto J., 94 Teeter Rock Road, Trumbull. $15,043, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 16.

Clark, Mary Ann, 105 Parsonage Road, Greenwich. $32,423, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31. Cohn, Ronald L., 14 John St., Shelton. $30,537, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 30. Cunningham, Eleanor M. and Philip E. Cunningham, 515 Old Post Road, Fairfield. $29,021, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 17. Fairchild, Linda, 15 Pioneer Court, Fairfield. $21,983, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31.

Pinto, Paul J., 2490 Black Rock Turnpike, Unit 222, Fairfield. $103,028, failure to collect or pay tax penalty. Filed Jan. 17. Preux-Maxime, L. St and Yvinx Maxime, 49 Deerfield St., Fairfield. $44,159, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 17. Sernick, Keith D., 66 Park Ave., Greenwich. $508,395, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 23. Silva, Glauber, 857 Post Road, Suite 356, Fairfield. $3,146, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31.

Fairfield Beach Spa LLC, 1330 Post Road, Fairfield. $18,572, quarterly federal excise tax return. Filed Jan. 23.

Tortora, Paul M., 23 Robert Court, Fairfield. $84,465, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 17.

Fawcett III, Roscoe K., 566 Hunting Ridge Road, Stamford. $1.2 million, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31.

Weisbecker, Jane C., 14 Pemberwick Road, Greenwich. $37,334, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31.

Glauber, Silva, 857 Post Road, Suite 356, Fairfield. $12,541, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 31.

Zemola, Christine A. and James F. Zemola, 421 Penfield Road, Fairfield. $36,763, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 17.

Hardiman Company & Associates Inc., 10 Fox Hunt Road, Shelton. $18,633, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 30.

FCBJ

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Facts & Figures Federal Tax Liens-Released Carbone, Bing, 100 Parrott Drive, Unit 711, Shelton. $49,172, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 23. Chetcuti, Mariel C., 31 Summit Road, Greenwich. $35,067, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 23. Marini, Mario, 40 Sturbridge Lane, Trumbull. $31,037, failure to collect or pay tax penalty. Filed Jan. 8. Schappert, Stephen E., 147 Elm St., Thomaston. $13,805, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 23. Zakar, Stephanie and Michael Roberge, 416 Old Oaks Road, Fairfield. $34,778, a tax debt on income earned. Filed Jan. 17.

Mechanic’s Liens-Filed Julian Curtiss School, Greenwich. Filed by Steamline Roofing Services LLC, Fairfield, by Damien J. Teed. Property: 180 E. Elm St., Greenwich. Amount: $82,084. Filed Jan. 23. Massari, John J., et al. Trumbull. Filed by Alterio Construction LLC, Monroe, by Leonard Alterio. Property: 7 Norwood Terrace, Trumbull. Amount: $5,708. Filed Jan. 8. McCormick, William and Mayling McCormick, Greenwich. Filed by H&Y Construction Inc., Brookfield, by William Hoadley. Property: Plot 28, Map 1068, Greenwich. Amount: $128,595. Filed Jan. 29. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Irvine, California. Filed by The Christopher Bryant Company LLC, Bloomfield, by David Litchfield. Property: 119 Rocky Rest Road, Shelton. Amount: $6,303. Filed Jan. 8.

Mechanic’s Liens-Released Bevis, Norma Aida and Jason T. Bevis, Greenwich. Released by Mac Electrical Contractor LLC, Greenwich, by David Andrew MacIntosh. Property: 178 Weaver St., Greenwich. Amount: $12,000. Filed Jan. 22. Greenwich Country Club, Greenwich. Released by M. Brett Painting Company Inc., Old Lyme, by Matthew Fleisher. Property: 19 Doubling Road, Greenwich. Amount: $59,883. Filed Jan. 31.

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Young Developers LLC, Greenwich. Released by Steamline Roofing Services LLC, Fairfield, by Damien J. Teed. Property: 180 E. Elm St., Greenwich. Amount: $82,084. Filed Jan. 26.

LIS PENDENS

Buonocore, Tarja, et al., Stamford. Filed by Frankel & Berg, Norwalk, for Candlelight Terrace Association of Stamford Inc., Stamford. Property: 154 Cold Spring Road, Unit 72, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a condominium lien for delinquent common charges and assessments and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 26.

Alarcon, Marisol J., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for The Bank of New York Mellon, New York, New York. Property: 260 Birmingham St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $255,000, dated June 2006. Filed Jan. 22.

Campbell, Margaret A., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 34-38 Trowel St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $154,540, dated March 2006. Filed Jan. 22.

Alban, Henry M., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Bank of America NA Property: 354 Earl Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $406,800, dated January 2008. Filed Jan. 22.

Chambers, Joanna E., et al., Greenwich. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 29 Buena Vista Drive, Greenwich. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $1.1 million, dated January 2008. Filed Jan. 31.

Bell, Gloria J., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 347 Alba Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount, dated November 2006. Filed Jan. 30. Bengermino, Edgar, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Columbus, Ohio. Property: 2612 North Ave., Unit B-24, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $175,750, dated June 2004. Filed Jan. 25. Blanchard, Robert J., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 113 Ranch Drive, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $285,000, dated April 2007. Filed Jan. 22. Bonaparte, Shanna, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 329 Oakwood St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $160,047, dated July 2013. Filed Feb. 1. Bostick, Lisa J., et al., Shelton. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Citimortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 34 Wake Robin Lane, Shelton. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $499,225, dated April 2008. Filed Jan. 23.

FCBJ

Cilio, Charles G., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 144-146 Overland Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Compo, Samuel J., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland. Property: 99 Indian Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $173,000, dated July 2007. Filed Jan. 22. Dangler, Kervel, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Florida. Property: 3510 E. Main St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $209,549, dated December 2011. Filed Jan. 22. Danuta, Maciulewski, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland. Property: 233 Griffin Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $50,000, dated August 2012. Filed Jan. 22. Duboys-Schaggner, Maureen L., et al., Trumbull. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Columbus, Ohio. Property: 16 Sharon Road, Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $100,000, dated June 2004. Filed Jan. 24.

Dumas, Martin, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for The Bank of New York Mellon, New York, New York. Property: 773 Maplewood Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $175,000, dated May 2005. Filed Jan. 30.

Hess, William George, Trumbull. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 8 Wilson Ave., Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $192,000, dated March 2007. Filed Jan. 16.

Longmuir, Robert T., et al., Fairfield. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Property: 40 Hawthorne Drive, Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $464,000, dated July 2006. Filed Jan. 29.

Dunbar, Linda D., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 34 Agnes St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24.

Hunter, Desmond, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 405 Taft Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $229,000, dated October 2006. Filed Jan. 31.

Mastroianni, Mary A., et al., Trumbull. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Reverse Mortgage Solutions Inc. Property: 18 Roxbury Drive, Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $469,342, dated September 2005. Filed Jan. 26.

Elliston, Claudia, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland. Property: 132 Bennett St., Unit 203, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $211,323, dated June 2007. Filed Jan. 30.

Jackson, Julia A., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by O’Connell, Attmore & Morris LLC, Hartford, for M&T Bank, Buffalo, New York. Property: 216 Granfield Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $118,300, dated January 2006. Filed Jan. 29.

McGregor, Jack E., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 40 Anchorage Drive, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $1 million, dated May 2004. Filed Jan. 26.

Flowers, Islyn C., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Florida. Property: 1407 Wood Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $191,468, dated February 2010. Filed Jan. 25. Fordham, Joan H., Trumbull. Filed by Martha Croog LLC, West Hartford, for Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Wilmington, Delaware. Property: 11 Meadowview Drive, Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $334,829, dated September 2010. Filed Jan. 23. Fulton, Katherine C., et al., Greenwich. Filed by Meyers, Piscitelli & Link LLP, Avon, for People’s United Bank NA, Bridgeport. Property: Lot 97, Map 526, Greenwich. Action: to foreclose on a condominium lien for delinquent common charges and assessments and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Galvan, Rafael I., et al., Norwalk. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 344 Rowayton Ave., Norwalk. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $764,000, dated August 2006. Filed Jan. 24. Giacobbe Construction LLC, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 259 Woodlawn Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24.

Johnson, Senay, Fairfield. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Citimortgage Inc., O’Fallon, Missouri. Property: 360 Wilson St., Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $168,000, dated May 2012. Filed Jan. 25. Juliano, Keisha M., Bridgeport. Filed by Marinosci Law Group PC, Warwick, Rhode Island, for Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC, Coral Gables, Florida. Property: 52 W. McKinley Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $253,326, dated February 2017. Filed Jan. 31. Khun, Sok K., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Pennymac Loan Services LLC. Property: 489 Lakeside Drive, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $166,920, dated July 2013. Filed Jan. 26. Kwak, Justin, et al., Fairfield. Filed by Milford Law LLC, Milford, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 218 Melody Lane, Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $269,500, dated June 2006. Filed Jan. 31. Lombardo, Carl R., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 107 Glenbrook Road, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $239,000, dated December 2006. Filed Jan. 31.

Miszczuk, Grzegorz, et al., Trumbull. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Bank of America NA Property: 54 Raven Road, Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $307,760, dated July 2003. Filed Jan. 24. Mojcher, Carol, et al., Fairfield. Filed by Marinosci Law Group PC, Warwick, Rhode Island, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: Lot E, Map 2777, Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $342,550, dated October 2005. Filed Jan. 22. Molnar, Scott A., et al., Trumbull. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 310 Plattsville Road, Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $185,000, dated April 2001. Filed Jan. 19. Monteiro, Domingos M., et al., Shelton. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 6 Peaceful Place, Shelton. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $178,000, dated March 2002. Filed Jan. 22. Negron, Edgar, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 280 Bunnell St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24.

Facts & Figures NRodriguez, Karen M., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 740-746 Howard Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $192,500, dated September 2007. Filed Jan. 30. Roman, Emilia, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 2625 Park Ave., Unit 8-H, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Romero, Jacqueline C., et al., Shelton. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for HSBC Bank USA NA, Buffalo, New York. Property: 25 Providence Ave., Shelton. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $213,750, dated November 2006. Filed Jan. 19. Roundtree, Erma J., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Bendett and McHugh PC, Farmington, for Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas. Property: 290 Summit St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $124,000, dated June 2001. Filed Feb. 1. Samczuk, Pauline, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 250 Dayton Road, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Sandra Y. Evans, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Welch, Teodosio & Stanek LLC, Shelton, for Webster Bank NA Property: 225 Dixon St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $254,500, dated August 2007. Filed Jan. 23. Scandizzo, Maria, et al., Stamford. Filed by Rosenberg & Rosenberg PC, West Hartford, for Hyde Park Condominium Association Inc., Stamford. Property: 27 Northill St., Unit 2X, Stamford. Action: to foreclose on a condominium lien for delinquent common charges and assessments and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 25. Severino III, James A., et al., Trumbull. Filed by James M. Nugent, Milford, for the town of Trumbull. Property: 135 Blueberry Road, Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Trumbull and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 10.

Smith, Jacquelyn N., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by Law Offices of Krasnow & Krasnow, Bridgeport, for Meadowview Condominium Association Inc. Property: Unit 8 of Meadowview Condominium, Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a statutory lien for delinquent common charges and assessments and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 23. Smith, Steven J., et al., Trumbull. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Wells Fargo Bank NA, Frederick, Maryland. Property: 60 Oxen Hill Road, Trumbull. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $292,395, dated May 2012. Filed Jan. 17. Tapia, Meliton Xavier, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 319 Wilmot Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. The Pavilion Office Center Ltd., et al., Greenwich. Filed by Pullman & Comley LLC, Bridgeport, for West Lyon Farm Condominium Association Inc. Property: 503 W. Lyons Farm Drive, Greenwich. Action: to foreclose on a condominium lien for delinquent common charges and assessments and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 23. Thompson, Anthony B., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 553-555 Gregory St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Thompson, Anthony B., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 36-38 Maplewood Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Trujillo Jr., Johnny, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 448 Queen St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $140,544, dated August 2011. Filed Jan. 25. Waikele Properties Corp., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 490 Alba Ave., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24.

Waikele Properties Corp., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 239 Moffitt St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Waikele Properties Corp., et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Marcus Law Firm, North Branford, for Cazenovia Creek Funding I LLC. Property: 246 Moffitt St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on tax liens levied by the city of Bridgeport against the defendant and take immediate possession of the premises. Filed Jan. 24. Walden, Ruth, et al., Bridgeport. Filed by The Witherspoon Law Offices, Farmington, for U.S. Bank NA, Salt Lake City, Utah. Property: 80 Staples St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $242,500, dated August 2005. Filed Jan. 22. Watson, Chicketa K., Bridgeport. Filed by Kapusta, Otzel & Averaimo, Milford, for The Bank of New York Mellon, New York, New York. Property: 677-699 Brewster St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $368,220, dated July 2007. Filed Jan. 31. Weyers, Sheila Barton, et al., Fairfield. Filed by McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLC, Hartford, for Plaza Home Mortgage Inc. Property: 130 Brookview Ave., Fairfield. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $558,693, dated May 2015. Filed Jan. 25. Wifall, Sylvia and Joshua W. Wifall, Bridgeport. Filed by Benanti & Associates, Stamford, for Peopleâ€™s United Bank NA, Bridgeport. Property: 556-558 Midland St., Bridgeport. Action: to foreclose on a delinquent mortgage in the original principal amount of $328,700, dated August 2004. Filed Jan. 24.

MORTGAGES 33 Sunshine Avenue LLC, by Debra Hess. Lender: Bank of America NA, New York, N.Y. Property: 33 Sunshine Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $650,000. Filed Jan. 25. 38 Lake Avenue Associates LLC, Greenwich, by Kevin E. Conboy. Lender: The First Bank of Greenwich, Greenwich. Property: 38 Lake Ave., Greenwich. Amount: $400,000. Filed Feb. 2. 51 Mooreland LLC, by Barrie Holt Thrasher. Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Westmont, Illinois. Property: 51 Mooreland, Greenwich. Amount: $3.9 million. Filed Jan. 24.

70 Bailey Road LLC, Fairfield, by Jonathan Makovsky. Lender: Daniel Kraus. Property: 70 Bailey Road, Fairfield. Amount: $300,000. Filed Jan. 29. A-1 LLC, by Aldo Pascarella. Lender: Emigrant Mortgage Company Inc., Elmsford, New York. Property: 559 Steamboat Road, Greenwich. Amount: $1.7 million. Filed Jan. 26. Connecticut House Buy LLC, Shelton, by Jose Antonio Imery. Lender: D2X LLC, Kiawah Island, South Carolina. Property: 62 Autumn Ridge Road, Shelton. Amount: $100,000. Filed Jan. 11. Manor Street LLC, Stamford, by Peter T. Grunow. Lender: The Greenwich Bank & Trust Co., Greenwich. Property: 51 and 52 Harbor St., Stamford. Amount: $386,570. Filed Jan. 25. Phoebe Property LLC, Windsor, by Gerald H. Pastor. Lender: SCFRC-HW-G LLC, Princeton, N.J. Property: 111 Merritt Blvd., Trumbull. Amount: $3.6 million. Filed Jan. 16. Pickwick Properties LLC, Lender: Bank of America NA, New York, New York. Property: 50 Mason St., Greenwich. Amount: $171,000. Filed Jan. 30. Romano Brothers Builders LLC, Shelton, by Mark Romano. Lender: Doreen Watmough, Milford. Property: 53A Wheeler St., Shelton. Amount: $200,000. Filed Jan. 12. Romano Brothers Builders LLC, Shelton, by Mark Romano. Lender: Doreen Watmough, Milford. Property: 53 Wheeler St., Shelton. Amount: $200,000. Filed Jan. 12. Southport AC LLC, Pound Ridge, New York, by Scott E. Solomon. Lender: Malvern Federal Savings Bank, Paoli, Pennsylvani. Property: 233 Old Post Road, Fairfield. Amount: $13 million. Filed Jan. 24. Trumbull Developers LLC, New York, New Y.ork, by Steven Fisch. Lender: Washington Trust Company, Westerly, Rhode Island. Property: 100 Oakview Drive, Trumbull. Amount: $39.6 million. Filed Jan. 16. Zhingri Homes LLC, Danbury, by Mario Zhingri-Zhunio. Lender: Loan Funder LLC, Series 2584. Property: 16 Blaine St., Danbury. Amount: $210,000. Filed Jan. 25.

NEW BUSINESSES 3DH Labs, 16 Commerce St., Norwalk 06851, c/o Maintou Group LLC. Filed Jan. 25.

Brighindi Builders, 557 Long Hill Ave., Shelton 06484, c/o Steve Brighindi. Filed Jan. 23. E + O Inc., 31 Henry St., Greenwich 06830, c/o Fred Olsen. Filed Jan. 22. E + O Inc., 31 Henry St., Greenwich 06830, c/o Fred Olsen. Filed Jan. 22. ETS, P.O. Box 124, Shelton 06484, c/o Dan Bernstein. Filed Jan. 23. Evolved Science LLC, 50 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Katrin Malin. Filed Jan. 30. Filipino Womenâ€™s Club of Connecticut Inc., 48 Prospect St., Apt. 5, Greenwich 06830, c/o Erlinda Contreras. Filed Feb. 1. Greenwich Shade & Blind, 244 Mill St., Greenwich 06830, c/o Joseph Annunziato. Filed Jan. 25. Herold Gardens & Lawn Care LLC, 15 Sullivan Ave., Shelton 06484, c/o Andrew Herold. Filed Jan. 23. Lark Merchandising LLC, 110 New St., Shelton 06484, c/o Paul Grimmer. Filed Jan. 25. Made You Look, 415 Howe Ave., Shelton 06484, c/o Brittany Jansen. Filed Jan. 23. MIB Realty, 30 Newtown Road, Danbury 06810, c/o Michael Bernstein. Filed Jan. 25. Omar Cruz Realty, 75 Main St., Unit 182, Norwalk 06851, c/o Omar Cruz. Filed Jan. 24. Pecylak Memorial Boys Basketball Booster Club, 27 Cold Spring Circle, Shelton 06484, c/o George Gamble. Filed Jan. 23. Peter Falkner Photography, 9 Glen Court, Greenwich 06830, c/o Peter Falkner. Filed Jan. 23. Steel Sharpens Steel, 777 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich 06830, c/o Rafael Medina. Filed Jan. 30.

PATENTS

Media system controllers. Patent no. 9,892,692 issued to Shawn Nageli, South Jordan, Michigan; and Iain Gregory, Plymouth, Michigan. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford. Method, medium and system for location-based gift identification. Patent no. 9,886,716 issued to Rodd Salvatore, Stamford. Assigned to GiftTitan.com LLC, Stamford. Pharmaceutical formulation containing gelling agent. Patent no. 9,877,924 issued to Curtis Wright, Rockport, Massachusetts; Benjamin Oshlack, Boca Raton, Florida.; and Christopher Breder, Bethesda, Maryland. Assigned to Purdue Pharma LP, Stamford. Providing a log of events to an isolated user. Patent no. 9,876,985 issued to Davide Di Censo, San Mateo, California; and Stefan Marti, Oakland, California. Rapid startup with dynamic reservation capabilities for network communication systems. Patent no. 9,894,124 issued to David Olsen, Kaysville, Utah. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford. System for providing a secure video display. Patent no. 9,894,083 issued to Ronald Mraz, South Salem, New York; Jeffrey Menoher, Ridgefield; and Andrew Holmes, Stamford. Assigned to Owl Computing Technologies Inc., Ridgefield. Systems and methods for treating an opioid-induced adverse pharmacodynamic response. Patent no. 9,884,059 issued to Michele Hummel, Marlton, New Jersey; Donald J. Kyle, Yardley, Pennsylvania; and Garth Whiteside, Yardley, Pennsylvania. Assigned to Purdue Pharma LP, Stamford. Techniques for optimizing the fidelity of a remote recording. Patent no. 9,877,134 issued to James M. Kirsch, Salt Lake City, Utah. Assigned to Harman International Industries Inc., Stamford. TRPV1 antagonists, including dihydroxy substitute and uses thereof. Patent no. 9,878,991 issued to Laykea Tafesse, Robbinsville, New Jersey. Assigned to Purdue Pharma LP, Stamford.

Azaspiro[4.5] decane derivatives and use thereof. Patent no. 9,884,865 issued to Mark Youngman, North Wales, Pennsylvania.; Laykea Tafesse, Robbinsville, New Jersey; and Jae Hyun Park, Chandler, Arizona. Assigned to Purdue Pharma LP, Stamford.

Apex Horticulture, 6 Hillside Drive, New Fairfield 06812, c/o Jonathan Cerqueira. Filed Jan. 23.

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