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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Don’t like Gingrich.
But THIS is the kind of INTENSIVE spade work the major media is prepared to do on any GOP potential candidates - while they totally ignore Obama’s cloudy background and administrative failures.
Callista must have expensive tastes.
Could be an investment against the falling dollar ..instead of gold bars they are buying gold jewelry
He should do like Obama, get other people to buy the jewelry for him and then invoice his campaign for “consulting services”. It works for buying houses too.
Good for CBS. Newt is neutered. He was worthless anyway.
Now, about those two obviously faked birth certificates of our joke-sludge president.
And his school records.
And his passports.
And his purloined SSN from Connecticut.
Get to it, libtards.
Who’s that woman? She has the same MDMA-glazed look as Nancy Pelosi.
I’m sure that Barack has his labia pierced.
Newtus Agustus...a true man of the people, who just happens to prefer Tiffany to Target or Walmart.
I predict u won’t see Newus on Hannity any time soon.
If he raises funds for a campaign and then drops out, does he get to keep the $$’s?
Is ‘Tiffany’ one of those pop-divas who goes by only one name?
...and I probably don’t want to know why ‘Newtie’ owes her money, do I?
And I said what about “Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
She said, “I think I remember the film,
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it.”
And I said, “Well, that’s the one thing we’ve got.”
Newt’s married to a Stepford Wife! Looks like the 1.0 model. They had more realistic skin tones and got rid of that “bug eyed” look by the 3.1 release. Too bad he didn’t upgrade.
shortest campaign in history?
Huge diamond earrings and a diamond necklace!!
It reminds me of what they did to Palin - attack her on her clothes.
I don’t approve of everything Newt does. But this is an attack by the left, following an old playbook. Did CBS go into Obama’s old debt? Pelosi’s? Clinton’s?
Next they’ll be going through his garbage can to prove his kids aren’t his. And his church bulletins.
That woman looks crazy.
I also heard that he once FAKED being pregnant in order to ‘cover’ for one of his daughters...
...at least I THINK it was him.
I have a hard time keeping all the media-induced ‘scandals’ straight.
“Could be an investment against the falling dollar ..instead of gold bars they are buying gold jewelry”
Nice try. You don’t buy Gold for investment at Tiffany’s HIGH retail price.
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