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Nursing home operators went to D.A. with request

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and three detectives sat in his Hauppauge office and listened to a pitch for an unusual investigation.

It was May 31, 2006. Bent Philipson and Benjamin Landa, operators of the state's largest for-profit nursing home group, and their lawyer Howard Fensterman, wanted authorities to investigate 10 Filipino nurses who abruptly resigned the month before from...

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