A glimpse into probe of DiMasi dealings
by Andrea Estes
Boston Globe
February 20, 2009
A news service reporter stumbled across investigators yesterday morning as
they were knocking on the door of a potential witness in the ongoing Cognos
computer contract probe, accidentally providing a small window into the
investigative trail federal and state authorities are following.
Gintautas Dumcius, a reporter for Statehouse News Service, a privately owned
news agency that covers Beacon Hill for paying subscribers, recounted the
chance encounter yesterday in a story on the service's website.
He said an FBI agent and an investigator for the state inspector general went to
the Beacon Hill apartment of Bethann Pepoli, the former state chief information
officer who was closely involved with awarding a contract to Cognos, whose
sales agent, Joseph Lally, was a close friend of former House speaker Salvatore
F. DiMasi.
Investigators did not find Pepoli yesterday, but they found Dumcius, who was
visiting a neighbor of Pepoli's.
The officials said they had stopped by the apartment before and had not seen
Pepoli, Dumcius reported.
DiMasi's involvement in pushing the state to award a contract for the type of
software produced by Cognos was part of the ethical controversy that engulfed
DiMasi last year. He resigned his seat in January, saying that he wanted to return
to the private practice of law.
The US attorney's office has convened a grand jury to examine the state's
awarding of two contracts to Cognos and payments by Cognos and Lally to
friends and associates of DiMasi at the same time the company was lobbying for
state business.
Article is also available here:
http://www.boston.
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_dimasi_dealings?mode=PF
by Andrea Estes
Boston Globe
February 20, 2009
A news service reporter stumbled across investigators yesterday morning as
they were knocking on the door of a potential witness in the ongoing Cognos
computer contract probe, accidentally providing a small window into the
investigative trail federal and state authorities are following.
Gintautas Dumcius, a reporter for Statehouse News Service, a privately owned
news agency that covers Beacon Hill for paying subscribers, recounted the
chance encounter yesterday in a story on the service's website.
He said an FBI agent and an investigator for the state inspector general went to
the Beacon Hill apartment of Bethann Pepoli, the former state chief information
officer who was closely involved with awarding a contract to Cognos, whose
sales agent, Joseph Lally, was a close friend of former House speaker Salvatore
F. DiMasi.
Investigators did not find Pepoli yesterday, but they found Dumcius, who was
visiting a neighbor of Pepoli's.
The officials said they had stopped by the apartment before and had not seen
Pepoli, Dumcius reported.
DiMasi's involvement in pushing the state to award a contract for the type of
software produced by Cognos was part of the ethical controversy that engulfed
DiMasi last year. He resigned his seat in January, saying that he wanted to return
to the private practice of law.
The US attorney's office has convened a grand jury to examine the state's
awarding of two contracts to Cognos and payments by Cognos and Lally to
friends and associates of DiMasi at the same time the company was lobbying for
state business.
Article is also available here:
http://www.boston.
com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/20/a_glimpse_into_probe_of
_dimasi_dealings?mode=PF
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