Claim: Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations." By: Restore Our Future on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 in a television ad. Headline: Did Newt Gingrich pay a $300,000 ethics fine back in the 1990s? Yes he did. Text: A pro-Mitt Romney "Super PAC" is flexing its muscles in the Republican race for ...
Jan 22, 1997 ... The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing. The ethics case and its resolution leave Gingrich with ...
The Gingrich Ethics Probe. The following are some of the key Post stories on the House ethics investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). IRS Clears Foundation ... December 31, 1998. Speaker Newt Gingrich completed payment of a $300,000 penalty imposed for violations of House rules. Ethics Committee Drops Last ...
Feb 7, 2012 ... We stumbled into another area controversy over definition in a recent fact-check of charges about Republican candidate for president Newt Gingrich. The super PAC Restore Our Future accused Gingrich of being "fined" $300,000 for an ethics violation in the 1990s. We checked the record and rated the ...
Dec 20, 2011 ... In 1997 Gingrich was ultimately slapped with a $300,000 fine by the House ethics committee for his “reckless” or “intentional” use of nonprofits for partisan political ends. Ultimately, the IRS caught wind of the arrangement and stepped in, ruling that as an educational nonprofit, ALOF couldn't finance a purely ...
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."