Tom Finneran

Tom Finneran finally finds a way to get people to talk about his radio show

adamg — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:45:48 +0000

The Herald reports that Finneran and his toady Grover Dill are not leaving WRKO - they just felt like having some fun and making people think that for a couple of days.

State's highest court strips Tom Finneran of his law license; says lawyers can't be allowed to lie under oath

adamg — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:42:22 +0000

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that former house Speaker Thomas Finneran be disbarred, saying lying under oath was a serious enough offense to keep him away from the bar.

The shame, the shame!

adamg — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:37:26 +0000

His hopes for a presidential pardon down the drain, Tom Finneran is now telling the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers he deserves his law license back because he's suffered quite enough shame, thank you very much. The state Office of Bar Counsel wants him disbarred for good for lying about his role in state redistricting after the 2000 census. The Supreme Judicial Court will have the final say.

Tom Finneran angling for role in mustard commercial

adamg — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:06:09 +0000

Leans out the window of his limo as the White House motorcade comes to a stop and asks:

Pardon me?

And cut!

The Outraged Liberal ponders the irony of the tough-on-crime ex-speakah angling for a pardon:

... I applaud Mitt Romney for his decision not to sign the letter as much as I question Dukakis for his decision to do so.

Finneran is guilty of something far worse than a white collar crime. He sat before a federal jury and lied about how he used his influence and authority in conducting the public's business.

What message would we be sending by letting him say "I'm sorry" and go back to practicing law and collecting his pension as if nothing had happened? ...

Takes one to know one?

adamg — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:31:03 +0000

Turns out Dianne Wilkerson has at least one fan in the media: WRKO talk show host Tom Finneran, who, of course, had his own courtroom issues, if not to the extent of facing 40 years in jail.

Tom Finneran could get law license back

adamg — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:26:28 +0000

Bruce Mohl at CW Unbound reports on hearing by a Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers panel that concluded Finneran had "mitigating circumstances" for lying about his role in legislative redistricting back in his Speakah days, notably intense pain from a hip problem and being distracted by his wife's knee surgery. Also, he's accepted responsibility for his misstatements, the panel said.

Finneran's legal fate is ultimately in the hands of the Supreme Judicial Court.

You can't keep a good lobbyist down

adamg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:31:24 +0000

Or Tom Finneran, at any rate.

Earlier:
Tom Finneran to give up State Police lobbying gig.

Tom Finneran to give up State Police lobbying gig

adamg — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:13:42 +0000

The WRKO job must pay more. The Globe has more.

Tom Finneran's latest ethics issue

adamg — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:43:16 +0000

Speaker-turned-blabmeister apparently out to prove this is a post-ethical world we're living in.

Herald steals one from Globe book

adamg — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:31:55 +0000

Just so you don't go around thinking it's just the Globe that proclaims "trends" based on the statements of one or two people (cheesemakers, anyone?), John Gonzalez notes that today the Herald has apparently redefined the term "experts" to mean "one former flack turned BU professor" in a short story about whether Mitt Romney and Tom Finneran prove it's OK for men to bawl in public (although the story, does mention a study in the very last sentence). Gonzalez adds:

... Next, perhaps, the Herald will address other pressing, age-old questions, among them "does wearing pink make you gay?"

Amazing: Somebody actually listens to Tom Finneran

adamg — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:36:00 +0000

Otherwise, how else would we know about him saying if he'd been Britney Spears's manager in Las Vegas, he would have slapped her in the face?

... Diva? You know what she'd be if I was there waiting for 4 1/2 hours? She'd be a diva with a black eye. I'd give her a dope slap. ...

A match made in radio felon heaven

adamg — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:48:44 +0000

Sure, Buddy Cianci wound up back in Providence, but wouldn't he make just the greatest on-air partner for Tom Finneran on WRKO? Jeff Keating says it'd be a win-win:

... By all accounts, Buddy is a real personality, heâ€™s got tons of radio experience, and WRKO is clearly looking for someone to partner Tom up with. Heck, they're both convicted felons! Sounds like a perfect marriage to me.

How do you define classy?

adamg — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:44:07 +0000

The Globe quotes Dan Kennedy as saying that, unlike race-baiter Bernard McGuirk, Tom Finneran has "some class and dignity." Carpundit retorts his definition of class does not include somebody who is an unrepentant, convicted felon.

Update: Kennedy in turn retorts (re-retorts?) that, while no fan of the ex-Mistah Speakah, he thought the charges against him were bogus and politically motivated:

Essentially, Finneran was given a choice: Plead guilty to trumped-up charges or go to prison. If you haven't done so before, I do urge you to read Harvey Silverglate's take, published in 2005.

'RKO goes after the racist market

adamg — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:27:00 +0000

Nothing like jokes about blacks to liven up the deadening Tom Finneran show.

But Elias seems just a little skeptical:

... McGuirk is an brutal little thug with what my mother would call "a cheap mouth" and a grating New York accent. For that reason alone I don't think he will last long if WRKO hires him. ...

Predicting tomorrow's news today

adamg — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:07:29 +0000

The Herald's Laurel Sweet will get Tom Finneran to insult today's insult-o-matic column by Howie Carr, thus letting her extend the Herald's Finneran/Carr streak to four days with a story that consists of one paragraph of new material and twelve paragraphs of background (or maybe two paragraphs of new material if she gets Carr to make a crack about Ron Borges over this boston.com poll).

Despite the Globe's wall-to-wall punditry today on Deval Patrick's telephone habits, Brian McGrory will get to leave work early this afternoon after he files a tut-tut-filled open letter to his friend Deval about how disappointed he is in him (bonus points if he recycles any of his quips from this column).