Lawyers for former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi said in court papers filed this week that the former Beacon Hill powerbroker was wrongly convicted of corruption in 2011, arguing that he did not accept bribes as federal prosecutors contend.
In a brief filed with the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, DiMasi’s lawyers wrote that prosecutors failed to prove that money funneled to him from a software company salesman through his former law partner, Steven Topazio, amounted to bribery.
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Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise While Sal sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell An innocent man in a living hell That's the story of the Speakers plight But it won't be over till they clear his name And give him back the time he's done Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been The Speaker of the House.
The real crime is that taxpayer's money is still being squandered on a man who clearly eploited his public postion for personal gain.