Mark Finkelstein
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Mark's undergrad degree is from Cornell. He has law degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Harvard. He practiced law in NYC, Mexico City, and Paris, before doing a stint as a pro tennis manager and tournament organizer. He returned to his college town of Ithaca, NY and got involved in real estate development and politics.

In 2011, Mark moved to Pecan Plantation, TX, and in 2018, to Oak Island, NC.

Mark's a dog lover who has used his small plane to do many dog-rescue flights. He speaks Spanish and French.
 

MarkF | May 30, 2010
On ESPNNEWS anchor Steve Weissman says the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape were exonerated, "but the questions remain."
MarkF | May 28, 2010
Joe Sestak says he turned down advisory board position offered to him by Pres. Clinton, but doesn't say if Rahm Emanuel or someone else in the White House subsequently offered him the post of Secretary of the Navy.
MarkF | May 28, 2010
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough said the MSM is so reluctant to cover the Sestak job-bribe story that they wouldn't do so if Rahm Emanuel announced it in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue wearing nothing but a Speedo.
MarkF | May 27, 2010
When asked by Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe, Time editor Rick Stengle seems stumped about Joe Sestak and the allegations the Obama admin offered him a top federal job in return for getting out of the PA senate primary against Arlen Specter.
MarkF | May 27, 2010
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski declares "I'm a Democrat."
MarkF | May 26, 2010
Interviewing Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Ed Schultz expresses the concern that the 1,200 National Guard troops that Pres. Obama has ordered to the Mexican border may have been issued "shoot to kill" orders.
MarkF | May 25, 2010
On Morning Joe of May 25, 2010, Joe Scarborough plays his interview from months before of Joe Sestak in which Scarborough unequivocally put it to Sestak that the White House offered him the Sec. of Navy job in return for getting out of PA Senate primary and Sestak seems to confirm it.
MarkF | May 25, 2010
On Morning Joe, Chuck Todd equates the apparent offer of a top federal job to Joe Sestak if he would drop out of the PA senatorial primary against Arlen Specter with Dick Cheney reportedly offering to support Tim Pawlenty in a future gubernatorial run if he would drop out of a senatorial primary against Norm Coleman.
MarkF | May 24, 2010
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and John Harwood clash over Dick Blumenthal, with Harwood downplaying Blumenthal's lies about having served in Vietnam as just a case of getting "carried away" and Scarborough coming close to calling Blumenthal a "scumbag."
MarkF | May 23, 2010
In the wake of Campbell Brown's withdrawal from her CNN show, citing poor ratings, Howard Kurtz, on his CNN show, Reliable Sources, wonders whether CNN's business strategy is "viable."