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DiMasi said to give lengthy testimony in Probation case

No bombshells in probation case

By Andrea Estes

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 16, 2012

Former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi is telling visitors to his temporary prison in Rhode Island that he testified for five hours before a federal grand jury investigating the hiring scandal in the state probation department, answering a question that has gripped Beacon Hill for weeks. But the former speaker insisted that he didn’t provide significant information that prosecutors could use against current or former legislators.

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