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25 Investigates: MA House Speaker DeLeo to leave State House

By Boston25News.com Staff

Robert DeLeo Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo speaks at the Massachusetts Statehouse, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Boston, prior to the swearing-in of the 160-member House of Representatives to new two-year terms on Beacon Hill. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Elise Amendola/AP)

By Boston25News.com Staff

BOSTON — Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop) is leaving his role at the State House, a source confirmed to 25 Investigates on Wednesday. Speaker DeLeo, 70, has served in his current role in the Mass. House of Representatives since 2009.

A report from the State House News Service refuted an earlier story from a different Boston media outlet that DeLeo was leaving his position to take a job at Northeastern University. That SHNS report cited a spokesperson for DeLeo who said that the six-time speaker and has no such agreement in place with the university.

Speaker DeLeo, who is the longest-serving House Speaker in Massachusetts history, earned a Bachelor of Arts from Northeastern, according to his biography on the Mass. Legislature’s website.

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