The Boston Globe reports on the case against former Massachusetts House speaker Salvatore DiMasi.

DiMasi and the other defendants are charged with steering two contracts worth $17.5 million to Cognos, a Burlington firm, in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments, including $57,000 for DiMasi. Also indicted were DiMasi’s friend and former accountant Richard Vitale; DiMasi’s friend and Cognos lobbyist Richard McDonough; and Cognos’s former sales agent, Joseph Lally.