Thomas Finneran

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thomas Finneran
Occupation	Radio Host
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1950(1950-01-02)
Age	74
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Capricorn

Thomas Finneran Biography

Thomas Finneran is one of the most popular and richest Radio Host who was born on January 2, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His parents are William the carpet cleaner, as well as the wife of his father, Mary (b. 1920). The fourth child of seven (five brothers , and 2 sisters). His partner Donna (nee Kelley) have two daughters, Kelley and Shannon F. Mahoney from Milton, Massachusetts. Mahoney attended Boston Latin School. Boston Latin School, graduated from Northeastern University in 1973 with an undergraduate degree in finance and business administration and earned his JD at Boston College Law School.

When he served as the Speaker of Massachusetts, he was renowned by his fiscal conservatism. the Speaker was adamant about balanced budgets, and also established the Massachusetts “rainy day fund.” He was also noted for having more conservative views on certain social issues than the majority of Massachusetts Democrats and also for his autocratic style of leadership that earned him the title of “King Tom” from some opponents. When he proposed redistricting in 2001 there was some who believe he tried to take on certain critics of his by attempting to remove their districts. For instance, his first plan was to combine Newton’s two primary House districts and forced incumbent Reps Kay Khan and Ruth Balser to oppose each other. Each of Khan as well as Balser were vocal critics of Finneran and it was only following the protests of a variety of women’s organizations that Finneran agreed to the proposal.

On January 11, 2007, Finneran was announced as the morning drive-time host on the Boston WRKO radio station, replacing Scott Allen Miller. On Tuesday May 28, 2012 it was announced that Tom Finneran will end his radio career at Entercom Communications WRKO in Boston, effective Thursday May 31, 2012 (his last broadcast date). In a statement, Finneran said he was not able to keep up with the hours to host a well-informed show.

Finneran served as president of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council since he resigned from the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2004 until January 8, 2007. The council is a non-profit organization with more than 500 corporate and academic members, promoting, and supporting the state’s biotechnology industry. It has been observed that Finneran’s value to the council has been primarily to be out of office, as Finneran was a vigorous and powerful opponent of stem cell research and repeatedly blocked legislative efforts to support stem cell research in Massachusetts. Finneran’s reported salary was $416,000 a year. On January 8, 2007, less than a week after the plea agreement, Finneran resigned from Biotechnology Council; the council unanimously accepted his resignation. Finneran had been praised as a highly effective lobbyist; his resignation permitted an internal debate about having a felon for the Council’s president to end.

Following in 2000, the U.S. census, in 2001, the Massachusetts House, under Finneran’s direction, drawn up New House districts. The redistricting process was contestable in Federal Court in a civil suit brought from The Black Political Task Force and other groups, for being unfair to voters of minority groups by constructing districts that were designed favouring white incumbents, to the detriment of those favored by the black population. In 2004 a 3-judge Federal Court panel held that the redistricting scheme violated Section 2 . of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in that it discriminated in favor of voters who were black. The panel ruled the 17 Massachusetts House districts were enjoined from being used during the 2004 election. It also stated the legislature was granted six weeks to come up with an acceptable district plan, and that the Plaintiff Black Political Task Force could make comments on the proposed districts prior to being accepted in the Court. In a footnote in the ruling the court also criticized Finneran as a person who did not inform the court properly when he claimed the Speaker was not involved with the process of redistricting. The court wrote “Although Speaker Finneran denied any involvement in the redistricting process, the circumstantial evidence strongly suggests the opposite conclusion.” Finneran’s attorney Egbert said that the assertion proved to be “simply wrong.” (Under the law of the state in addition to House regulations, Finneran was free to be a part of the process of drafting the map of legislative districts before it was made public.) Federal prosecutor’s indictment of Finneran in June of 2005 in a criminal matter and charged him with perjury and defamation for allegedly misrepresenting his involvement during the process of redistricting. The indictment mentioned eight meetings he had concerning redistricting.

Thomas Finneran Net Worth

Thomas Finneran is one of the richest Radio Host from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas Finneran 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Thomas Michael Finneran (born January 27 1950) is a talk radio host also a an ex- Massachusetts Democratic politician. He was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from April 1996 until September 2004. He was a member of the district that comprised parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester, Mattapan and Hyde Park as well as portions of Milton’s town Milton for a total of 26 years.

Finneran was elected first in Finneran was first elected to Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1978. He was elected the 83rd speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1996. He defeated Democratic Majority Leader Richard Voke, the favorite to win, by winning all the votes from the Republican caucus, as well as 55 of the 121 Democratic voting (91 of the total 158 votes).

On November 14, 2003, he made misleading and false statements under oath in US District Court, according to the agreement. The seven-page document, signed by Finneran on January 3, 2007, states, “Defendant expressly and unequivocally admits that he committed the crime so charged in the indictment, and that he is in fact guilty of the offense so charged in the indictment.” Finneran faced 16 to 21 months in prison if he was convicted on all counts stemming from criminal charges that he misrepresented his role in the creation of a legislative redistricting map that diluted the clout of minority voters. Finneran lost his $30,000-a-year pension after his plea. A decision in 2006 by the state Supreme Judicial Court permitted a pension to be revoked in a similar case of breach of public trust. His attorney, Richard Egbert, has said Finneran never claimed he was totally uninvolved in the redistricting process and that he acknowledged in his testimony having about “half a dozen” conversations with leaders of the redistricting committee.

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Retirement Board voted in October 2012, that Finneran was not entitled to a government pension of about $32,900 a year due to his conviction of obstruction of justice in 2007. Finneran appealed the Retirement Board decision to the Boston Municipal Court where a judge reversed the Board’s decision, concluding that Finneran’s conviction did not bear “a direct factual link to his position as a House Member and/or Speaker[.]” On April 5, 2017, the Supreme Judicial Court reversed that decision and reinstated the decision of the Retirement Board, holding that “[s]imply put, it is only because he had been Speaker of the House at the relevant time that he was in a position to testify as to the genesis of the redistricting plan and to do so falsely. This connection is enough to warrant forfeiture” under the relevant Massachusetts statute, General Law c. 32, § 15(4).

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