“You’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do. I don’t want to see you at the hotels, I don’t want you near my house.”

That was what Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino, said to his brother Fredo in “The Godfather II” but it’s also the “read between the lines” message in the statement released by House Speaker Robert DeLeo less than an hour after a federal jury convicted his predecessor Sal DiMasi.

DeLeo could not bring himself to mention DiMasi’s name in the release, referring to him as “the defendant” and saying that passing DiMasi’s actions off as “business as usual” is a slap in the face to all lawmakers. The irony is DeLeo, who was Ways and Means chairman under DiMasi, would not be in his position if not for DiMasi’s heavy hand. Testimony during the trial revealed the two were planning DeLeo’s takeover as speaker as early as 2007 despite DiMasi bristling at questions at the time over whether he was planning on stepping down.

Senate President Therese Murray also issued a terse statement that did not mention DiMasi by name. Murray’s statement says the verdict was the result of the “actions of one person.” It used the “one person” phrase three times.

DeLeo’s caustic statement was a marked departure from earlier this year when he invited DiMasi and two other former speakers, Thomas Finneran and Charles Flaherty, to attend DeLeo’s reelection and swearing in as speaker. At that time, DiMasi was preparing to stand trial, while Flaherty and Finneran had both been convicted.

Seth Gitell, DeLeo’s spokesman, declined comment.