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Newt Gingrich reportedly owed up to $500,000 to Tiffany
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Posted on 05/17/2011 12:02:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Newt Gingrich reportedly owed up to $500,000 to Tiffany Posted by Brian Montopoli

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who entered the 2012 presidential race just last Wednesday, is having an epically bad week. And it's only Tuesday.

On Sunday, Gingrich angered conservatives by criticizing Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan and semi-supporting an individual mandate for health care. Now he is being stung by a report that he carried up to $500,000 in debt to the Tiffany jewelry company - and may still be carrying it.

Politico got the scoop by looking at financial records filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives in 2005 and 2006. (CBS News has requested copies of the records, but has not yet seen them.) While Newt Gingrich has not been in the House since 1999, his wife, Callista Gingrich, worked for the House Agriculture Committee through 2007.

According to Politico, Callista Gingrich reported a "revolving charge account" at Tiffany and Company that she indicated was for the debt of her spouse. (A "revolving charge account" is a credit card.) She reported the debt to be in the range of $250,001 to $500,000.

Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler declined to comment on why the Gingriches were carrying the debt to the jewelry company - or whether they still carried it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; character; fung; gingrich; jewelry; newt; newtgingrich; tiffany
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Self destruct.......
1 posted on 05/17/2011 12:02:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

And the sooner the better.


2 posted on 05/17/2011 12:05:44 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Sub-Driver

It costs a lot of money to support a high maintenance wife and multiple mistresses.


3 posted on 05/17/2011 12:05:44 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: No Socialist

He could lower his standards, after all they certainly did.


4 posted on 05/17/2011 12:06:50 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Sub-Driver
Has Politico ever looked at any financial statement of the Obama’s since day one?
5 posted on 05/17/2011 12:07:07 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: No Socialist

That was my first thought. But maybe he has one of those piercings in his belly button or something, since I haven’t noticed anything obvious like earrings or a nose ring.


6 posted on 05/17/2011 12:07:32 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: CaptainK

Great question.

I’m not a Newtie fan at all, BUT

this is the same MSM that did more investigation of Joe the plumber Wurzelbacher in 24 hours than they did of Baraq in 24 months.


7 posted on 05/17/2011 12:09:22 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Sub-Driver

Yep, toast!!!


8 posted on 05/17/2011 12:09:58 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: Tijeras_Slim

“And the sooner the better.”

Exactly. He’s a JERK. “Conservative” my a$$!


9 posted on 05/17/2011 12:10:02 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Sub-Driver
I remember when he became Speaker..in his office he had models of dinosaurs and a stuffed moose...

OTOH, you can't really think that Callista shares a bed with him because of his "brain?"

10 posted on 05/17/2011 12:10:02 PM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Yep, sucked enough air out of the room, time for him to go.


11 posted on 05/17/2011 12:10:30 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: Sub-Driver

This reminds me of when my boss at our international trading company in Switzerland closed the office door and told me he wanted to show me something. Our company was owned by a billionnaire who resembled an ugly troll on a good day, and he used to breeze through Switzerland from time to time. After one visit, this wealthy man had purchased something for his much younger and pretty wife in one of the diamond-encrusted jewelry stores on the Bahnhofstrasse. He left it in my boss’s safe.

My boss, close to 80 years old, took out the expensive jewelry box to show me the most elegant sapphire and diamond necklace I’d ever seen. “Wow,” I breathed.

“But think,” my boss noted, “of what she has to do to get it.”


12 posted on 05/17/2011 12:10:40 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sub-Driver

So that’s how a chubby dweeb gets wives. He just needs to go away and maybe he can still sell a few books before he totally self-destructs.


13 posted on 05/17/2011 12:10:49 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Sub-Driver

Too many breakfasts at Tiffany’s?


14 posted on 05/17/2011 12:11:23 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: nascarnation

I’m not a big fan of Newt either. But, this is clearly character assassination time. It’s time to release negative stories about him to coincide with the start of his campaign. That’s why this is being reported now.


15 posted on 05/17/2011 12:12:26 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Sub-Driver

16 posted on 05/17/2011 12:12:47 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Sub-Driver

If true, this is sad. I wanted Newt in the race to bring some strong debating and ideas to the process... I knew he would eventually crash and burn as he predictability does. I had no idea it would be in the first week...


17 posted on 05/17/2011 12:13:32 PM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just waiting to hear that he had a sex change operation when he was 18.


18 posted on 05/17/2011 12:13:32 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Newt Gingrich reportedly owed up to $500,000 to Tiffany

The teeny-bopper chick from the 80s? I wonder if he owed Debbie Gibson anything?

19 posted on 05/17/2011 12:13:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NativeNewYorker

She’s had so many facelifts she can’t even close her eyes.


20 posted on 05/17/2011 12:14:19 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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