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...scores of ethical charges hurled at Gingrich over the past two years, one worried his allies the most. It was the suggestion that he may have lied to the House ethics committee about the college course he taught and financed through a tax-exempt foundation. Gingrich initially professed not to know what the committee was hinting at when it questioned whether the Speaker had provided "accurate, reliable and complete information." And in an interview with TIME shortly before the election, he noted, "My attorney, who by the way has won three Supreme Court cases, does not have a clue what...
Attorney Jan Baran, whose roster of G.O.P. clients has included the Republican National Committee, announced that he would no longer appear before the committee as the Speaker's counsel. "I wish to make clear that my firm did not submit any material information to the ethics committee without Mr. Gingrich's prior review and approval," Baran said. Congressman John Linder, a fellow Georgian apparently deputized to speak for the Speaker, acknowledged that Gingrich had filed a false statement with the committee but fired back that any problem was the fault of the lawyer, who "was hired and paid...
...chief of those "mistakes" was Gingrich's false assertion that his political organization, GOPAC, was not involved with the college course. (Though he later insisted he was spreading his ideas, not his politics, Gingrich once boasted that his course, a lecture series carried on cable TV, would produce "200,000 committed activists nationwide before we're through.") Still, the subcommittee last week stopped short of saying the Speaker had broken tax laws by allowing politics to become tangled with the work of a tax-exempt nonprofit group. Instead, it faulted Gingrich for not taking "appropriate steps" to assure that...
...bizarre exchange between Gingrich and his lawyer disturbed even Republican stalwarts. "For the first time, a few eyebrows are being raised," said Joe Scarborough, a House Republican from Florida. However, Gingrich's turnaround seems to have allayed the fears of the small but significant number of Republicans who were leery of re-electing him while he remained under an ethical cloud. Connecticut's Chris Shays, who had threatened to abstain unless the report was released, and New York's Peter King, a vocal Gingrich critic, came back into the fold, both pledging to vote for Newt on Jan. 7. What...
...this second Era of Good Feelings, who knew what player might be waiting in the wings? In an interview with pbs's Jim Lehrer, Newt Gingrich, rising from the dead and re-elected House majority leader, compared himself to Jackson...