State Senator Paul Doyle Connected to Pita Group.

Not every state contractor can claim a veteran state senator as its agent for service. The Pita Group of Rocky Hill can. The public relations firm has been much in the news lately, and not in a good way, over millions in communications, advertising and tweeting contracts with suspended state technical schools superintendent Nivea Torres. Pita enjoys the services of state Senator Paul Doyle (D-Wethersfield), according to records filed at the Office of the Secretary of State. Doyle, co-chair of the legislature’s powerful Judiciary Committee, is listed as Pita’s agent for service on its mandatory business filing.

Pita has hired well-known Hartford lawyer John Droney to do the heavy lifting in the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) investigation of Torres.