BOSTON (AP) -- A ticket brokers industry group paid a close friend of House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi $60,000 to work on their behalf last year, apparently contradicting assertions by Richard Vitale that he did not work as a lobbyist for the group.
The Massachusetts Association of Ticket Brokers on Friday filed documents with the secretary of state's office indicating it paid Vitale's WN Advisors LLC $30,000 between January and June 2007, and another $30,000 between July and December 2007.
The ticket brokers group said it severed its relationship with Vitale this week.
Vitale, an accountant and friend of DiMasi, reiterated through a spokesman on Friday that he was a "strategist" and not a lobbyist for the group.
According to state law, anyone paid more than $5,000 to influence state legislators must register as a lobbyist.
Secretary of State William Galvin is investigating.
Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, talks about how unpatriotic the Republican leadership is by breaking the record for filibusters in Congress thus hurting many Americans.
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