Holy Bedbugs, RIP The Former Newspaper Known As The Hartford Courant

Via
George Gombossy's
Connecticut WATCHDOG

Sleepy’s:
The bedbug column The Courant
refused to publish about its prime advertiser

Friday, August 14, 2009

By George Gombossy

This was my column, as approved by my editor, that the Courant refused to publish about one of its biggest advertisers. It was scheduled to run on Aug. 2 but was held without an explanation. This was the first time in my 40 years at The Courant that an investigation by the attorney general was withheld from the public.

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he has launched an investigation into consumer complaints that Sleepy’s sold mattresses or box springs that were used instead of new, and in one case infested with bedbugs.

Blumenthal said last month that he has up to 10 recent complaints against Sleepy’s, the largest mattress chain in the United States, with 74 stores in Connecticut.

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