The motion seeks more than $5,200 in public legal counsel funding to pay for 6,765 pages of transcripts.
Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi opens the car door for his wife Deborah after they left the Federal Courthouse in Boston, June 15, after his conviction on conspiracy and other charges in a scheme to steer two state contracts worth $17.5 million to a software firm in exchange for payments.BOSTON — Lawyers for convicted former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi are asking a federal court to deliver at government expense thousands of pages of transcripts from DiMasi's recent trial.
The request is among the first steps by the defense team to appeal DiMasi's June 15 conviction on conspiracy, honest services fraud and extortion charges.
The motion seeks more than $5,200 in public legal counsel funding to pay for 6,765 pages of transcripts, including a request for expedited transcripts of the testimony of two key witnesses in the case: former Cognos software salesman Joseph Lally and DiMasi's law associate, Steven Topazio.
Defense attorney Thomas Kiley said in the motion that the transcripts will be used to help prepare post-trial appeals.