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 […]
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New Massachusetts ethics, lobbying, and campaign finance laws for 2010
Over the course of the year I’ve posted a number of stories about new ethics, lobbying, and campaign finance proposals in Massachusetts. Some of the state’s new law is set to go into effect on January 1, 2010. The campaign finance law forces new disclosures of spending on issue ads and acceptance of big donations […]
Charges fly in Boston mayoral race
Michael Flaherty filed a complaint that an aide to Mayor Menino “used city employee personnel records to tally contributions by the city’s firefighters to his campaign.”