$540,000 a year job for ex-speaker Finneran

Finneran ready for business - The Boston Globe: "Having passed the one-year mark since his departure from the State House, Finneran is no longer legally barred from lobbying his former colleagues"

''This will be perfect for him; he's one of the brightest guys who ever served in the building," said former House speaker Charles F. Flaherty.
Flaherty, too, is a State House lobbyist and, like Finneran, changed careers under a haze of legal troubles.

Biotech executives said they expect Finneran, who is paid $540,000 a year, to lobby for faster permitting of new office buildings