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...being rude to other politicians. Hannegan was only in the office four months. (He went on to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Postmaster General of the U.S., and part owner of the St. Louis Cardinals; he died in 1949.) In those four months Hannegan picked James Finnegan, a political hack, as his successor in St. Louis. He also picked his successor as commissioner of Internal Revenue, Joe Nunan, a Tammany character who had been collector in Brooklyn. To succeed himself in Brooklyn, Nunan picked Joseph P. Marcelle, a ward boss...
...Louis federal judge last week told in detail how the Department of Justice reached out from Washington to interfere with a federal grand jury's investigation into tax-fraud cases. The investigation ultimately led to 31 indictments, including one against Harry Truman's old friend, James P. Finnegan of St. Louis, U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue (TIME, Oct. 22). Finnegan was convicted of misconduct in office, fined $10,000 and sentenced to two years...
...Finnegan, who resigned under fire, was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for misconduct in office (TIME...
Convicted last week for misconduct as a U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue: James P. Finnegan, 51, once a Fair Deal influence peddler and trusted crony of Harry Truman. After a nine-day trial in St. Louis' federal court, a jury found Finnegan guilty of illegally accepting some $8,000 in fees from two private companies for helping them collect a claim and a loan from the U.S. Government...
Friedman was indeed an expert from the Estate Research Bureau in New York City. Quiet Hugh Finnegan is a brother of the then St. Louis Tax Collector Jim Finnegan, who himself is under indictment for bribery...