What is the role of the wife of Sal DiMasi in his corruption scandal?”
Sal DiMasi pleads not guilty to corruption charges (NECN: Scot Yount, Boston, Mass.) – Stoically ignoring the cameras and reporter’s questions-Salvatore DiMasi and his wife Debbie arrive at the Moakley Federal Courthouse. The former House Speaker here for his arraignment on an eight count federal indictment. The government is essentially charging DiMasi and three others with bid rigging. DiMasi is charged with receiving $57,000 in illegal payments from a software company in exchange for steering legislation that would insure the company Cognos ULC-would receive lucrative state contracts worth roughly 20 million dollars. After a delay, Judge Robert Collings asked DiMasi and the other defendants whether they wanted the indictments read back to them. All answered no your honor. When Judge Collings asked each man how he pled, DiMasi was the loudest and most emphatic-answering, “not guilty to each count your honor.” Outside the courthouse-DiMasi’s attorney Thomas Kiley would say little. “We
Deborah M. DiMasi coolly and confidently told state lawmakers that her brother lost his longtime battle with physical and mental illness earlier this year and took his life. DiMasi, wife of House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, said she was finally speaking publicly about losing 46-year-old Jeff Kinlin in late March in hopes of eradicating the “social stigma” attached to suicide and psychiatric illness. She joined suicide prevention advocates, mental health specialists, relatives of suicide victims, and student leaders at a Beacon Hill hearing Tuesday. DiMasi applauded legislators for appropriating $1.25 million for suicide prevention, but urged them to triple the amount to $3.75 million in the fiscal year starting July 2006.
