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BOSTON, July 30 (UPI) -- A software company that did business with the state of Massachusetts hired two associates of the speaker of the state House of Representatives.
They are a law partner and accountant of Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, D-Boston, The Boston Globe reports. At the time, software company Cognos ULC won state contracts worth millions of dollars.
One contract awarded to Cognos in 2007 has been revoked by the state and is under investigation by the state attorney general, the Globe said.
Steven Topazio, who has a private law practice with DeMasi, in an interview with the newspaper wouldn't say what he did for Cognos except to say he worked on a "legal" matter.
The accountant, Richard Vitale, worked for Joseph Lally, an independent Cognos sales agent, the Globe said, citing people with knowledge of their relationship. Vitale has served as DiMasi's campaign treasurer.
DiMasi refused to comment on the revelations, the Globe said.
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