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 | March 7, 2015
On Steve Kornacki's MSNBC show, David Corn says that the Hillary camp, in a "defensive crouch" over the email issue, have told him and other members of the press things that "are not true."
MarkF | March 6, 2015
On Ed Schultz's MSNBC show, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, says that people don't care about the Hillary email story and that it is "a lot ado about nothing."
MarkF | March 6, 2015
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says of Hillary's handling of email: "this wasn't honest."  She also admits that if it were Dick Cheney instead of Hillary, "I'd go crazy." Lawrence O'Donnell admits that Hillary's email system "was set up obviously to defy the Freedom of Information Act."
MarkF | March 5, 2015
What's wrong with this picture: Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist being tougher on Hillary than ostensible Republican Nicolle Wallace? On  Morning Joe, former W aide Wallace says that Hillary would wind up releasing all her emails and they would turn out to be "wedding stuff." Mika had blasted Hillary for setting up her own servers, and Geist gently pointed out that since Hillary didn't have an…
MarkF | March 4, 2015
  It was almost a funny moment: until you realized that members of the press were openly laughing at the fecklessness of the ostensible leader of the free world.  On Morning Joe, the Washington Post's Gene Robinson, his voice cracking with emotion at times, repeatedly claimed that President Obama would use military force if necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.  Andrea Mitchell…
MarkF | March 3, 2015
On the Bloomberg TV show he co-hosts John Heilemann, asked today to quantify on a scale of "1-to-Godzilla" how "dumb" politically it was of Hillary Clinton to use personal email, answered "Godzilla wiht Mothra riding on his back."  Heilemann also revealed having reached out to former Hillary aides and that "to a person" they responded that the situation is a political "disaster." Mark Halperin…
MarkF | March 3, 2015
  In his speech to the joint session of Congress, Netanyahu took a not-so-subtle shot at John Kerry.  The Israeli PM went out of his way to be bi-partisan in his speech today, finding ways to praise President Obama and even Harry Reid.   But Kerry came in for a stinging slight when Netanyahu said "last year, the same [Iranian foreign minister] Zarif, who charms Western diplomats, laid a wreath…
MarkF | March 3, 2015
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have wondered out loud whether Michael Schmidt, the New York Times reporter who broke the story about Hillary using private email during her time as Secretary of State, might be fearing "retribution" from Hillary's camp. When Joe and Mika interviewed Schmidt on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough had to work to get Schmidt to say something that was in his own…
MarkF | March 2, 2015
Say "1964" and those of us old enough to remember it might do so for the appearance on Ed Sullivan's show of a little British group called the Beatles. But Chris Matthews recalls something else: the decision of the Republican party to nominate Mr. Conservative, Barry Goldwater, and his ensuing wipeout by LBJ. On his MSNBC show tonight, Matthews suggested that Republicans are in a similarly…
MarkF | February 27, 2015
On today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski suffered an acute bout of PKSD Post Kiss Stress Disorder.  After a clip was rolled of John Boehner blowing kisses at a reporter, Mika got all verklempt, exclaiming "I know a lot of dirty old men who did that to me. I'm throwing up. That brought back bad memories."   Things got so bad for poor Mika that she eventually fled the set and had to be coaxed back…