Last I remember he couldn’t afford to move out so they were still living togther. The house was for sale at one point.
Special Tue column ping
Felon Finneran’s disbarment: Check
By Howie Carr | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Let’s go down the Felon Finneran checklist:
Convicted of obstruction of justice - check!
Stripped of his $32,000 state pension - check!
Forced out in disgrace from his $400,000 lobbying job - check!
Denied a presidential pardon for lying under oath about his racist gerrymandering schemes - check!
Disbarred as morally and ethically unfit to practice law - check!
In prison where he so obviously belongs - sadly, no.
Fired from his pathetic, failed, ratings-challenged train wreck of a radio show - no, no, no.
Well, to paraphrase Meatloaf, five outta seven ain’t bad.
How unfortunate that yet another escape hatch has been closed to Rep. Chromedome. How’s that new radio contract coming along, Mistah Speakah? The Advil-addled hack doesn’t seem to have a lot of options here, especially not with an endless stream of bent pols looking for no-heavy-lifting radio jobs to prove to their parole officers they too are avoiding association with other known criminals, like, come to think, Finneran.
Not that this will be a permanent disbarment, of course. You will notice that it’s retroactive to January 2007. I believe that this wretched reprobate can apply for readmission to the bar after five years - in other words, 2012.
I would never say that the fix will be in, but didn’t Felon Finneran’s top aide at the State House used to be a guy named William F. Kennedy? And isn’t this same William F. Kennedy now the chairman of the Board of Bar Examiners - surely not a bad friend to have under such regrettable circumstances as this, no?
Plus, if a lawyer who connived with Jerry Angiulo, and who went to prison for it, can get his ticket back, then why not Felon Finneran? I refer of course to William Cintolo, who is now defending Sal DiMasi, who followed Tommy Taxes into the speakership and now into the dock in the U.S. District Court. Oh, and by the way, Sal’s roster of clients included two of Jerry’s LCN soldiers - the Vinnies, Ferrara and Federico.
Small world, isn’t it?
I know the Felon’s cronies are crying in their beers, claiming that he’s been railroaded for nothing. Maybe, but then, they didn’t lug Galluccio for any of his really terrible booze-fueled accidents, did they? Just like they never bagged Al Capone for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
The worst thing the Felon ever did (that we know of) was overturning the mandate of 1.5 million Massachusetts voters to stop the cut in the state income tax to 5 percent. So much for democracy, when a palpably corrupt, now convicted criminal, who on his best day never got many more than 7,000 votes, can give the finger to all of us who actually have to go out and work for a living, unlike Finneran and everyone he’s “helped” over the years.
I still want this talentless crook out of radio, but that’s going to happen, in time. And I really thinks he needs to do at least a short bit. And I have faith that’ll happen too. It took a while to get Galluccio, after all, but we did.
In the meantime, the Felon is disbarred. Thank you, Jesus.
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