{"id":916,"date":"2009-06-08T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=916"},"modified":"2009-06-08T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:19:59","slug":"dimasi-arraignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/08\/dimasi-arraignment\/","title":{"rendered":"DiMasi arraignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts ex-House Speaker Sal DiMasi is to be <a title=\"arraigned in Boston federal court today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/breaking_news\/2009\/06\/dimasi_faces_ar.html\" target=\"_blank\">arraigned in Boston federal court today<\/a> on conspiracy and fraud charges for allegedly accepting kickbacks for steering state contracts to a computer software company.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor <a title=\"Fred Bayles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/fred_bayles.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Bayles<\/a>, a former USA Today and AP reporter who runs the <a title=\"BU State House journalism program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/statehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU State House journalism program<\/a>, says in a <a title=\"Boston Herald op-ed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/opinion\/op_ed\/view.bg?articleid=1177110\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Herald op-ed <\/a>that the case points to a &#8220;<em>systemic failure in the state&#8217;s legislative system<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact Fred Bayles, 617-353-7736, <a href=\"mailto:fbayles@bu.edu\">fbayles@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts ex-House Speaker Sal DiMasi is to be arraigned in Boston federal court today on conspiracy and fraud charges for allegedly accepting kickbacks for steering state contracts to a computer software company.\u00a0 College of Communication Professor Fred Bayles, a former USA Today and AP reporter who runs the BU State House journalism program, says in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1153,1152,1150,1151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}