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Shocker! Sal DiMasi’s role as BMG co-founder revealed! (or: you can’t always trust what you read)

August 5, 2010 By David 9 Comments

Over at AllAfrica.com, columnist Kunle Somorin reveals shocking new details about the origins of Blue Mass Group.  These amazing revelations have not been previously published! I hope that Halims Agoda and Farouk Lawan may not find … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, bmg, dimasi, hudak, ma-06

Supreme Court decision seems likely to allow DiMasi prosecution to go forward

June 24, 2010 By David 4 Comments

The Supreme Court today narrowed, but did not invalidate, the federal "honest services" law that has been used to prosecute many people charged with public or private corruption, including former House Speaker Sal DiMasi.  The essence … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dimasi, supreme-court

Wrong Arm of the Law Focus of D. Kennedy’s column in UK Guardian

November 22, 2009 By hlpeary Leave a Comment

Dan Kennedy from Media Nation and a BMG blogger has a very interesting opinion column in Britain's The Guardian this weekend. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dimasi, federal-prosecutors, kennedy, us-attorney

At no time did Speaker DeLeo communicate with…

October 31, 2009 By justinian 13 Comments

"At no time did Speaker DeLeo communicate with Sal DiMasi, James Holzman, Richard Vitale, Reps. Rodrigues or Petrolati on the ticket broker bill,'' says Seth Gitell, spokesman for Speaker DeLeo. Only a few months into office, and DeLeo's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deleo, dimasi, petrolati

Beyond ethics reform

June 7, 2009 By rick-holmes 8 Comments

The editorial offers a few suggestions: - Put legislative redistricting in the hands of an independent commission. - Put decisions about legislators' perks - office assignments, parking spaces, etc. - in the hands of an independent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: beacon-hill, committees, dimasi, legislature, reform, speaker

Together we can?

June 3, 2009 By Charley on the MTA 8 Comments

Ryan found it in his email box first. Here's a joint statement from the Gov, Sen. Prez Murray, and Speaker DeLeo: “The news of yesterday’s indictments and the nature of the charges are deeply disturbing.  All … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deleo, dimasi, ethics, house-of-representatives, patrick, therese-murray

What to do

June 3, 2009 By David 40 Comments

Public financing.  I know a lot of progressives see this as the holy grail.  I've never been a huge fan, but regardless, we can't afford it right now.  The money simply is not there, so there's not really much point in … [Read more...]

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How do we reform the Office of the Speaker?

June 3, 2009 By Jasiu 6 Comments

It's pretty obvious that the power held by the Speaker of the Massachusetts House: is a corrupting force; and leads to actions that are detrimental to the Commonwealth. Knowing very little about how things work inside the State House, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dimasi, massachusetts-house, speaker

The stench behind the stench

June 3, 2009 By nospinicus Leave a Comment

    The betrayal of public trust evidenced by the DiMasi mess has another stinky dimension. DiMasi and his partners in corruption have been charged with pocketing thousands of dollars in their pay to play scheme. As if this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dimasi, double-corruption, wasteful-software

Thoughts on the DiMasi indictment

June 3, 2009 By Charley on the MTA 20 Comments

Well, we knew that his hands weren't exactly clean, and that he was too close to some folks that were pretty plainly trying to buy some influence. And we knew there was something fishy with the Cognos deal.This is what I wrote back in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dimasi, ethics, house-of-representatives

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