“especially when Freddie’s representative claims they were hiring Gingrich, not his underlings. Maybe it will turn out they knew exactly what they were getting, but politically it’s got to be better for Gingrich if that story fades away, rather than having it argued front and center again.”
It’s never been proven. Or perhaps you have some cache of records, receipts, billed hour logs, etc? No, you don’t. If they existed we’d have ll seen them. There is no proof of wrong doing. Just lies and innuendo. I work fo a company which has done things I would not do, but I did not do them.
What IS on the record is Newt’s testimony and records that he advised them not to do what they did. I have no proof of wrong doing and neither does anyone else. So why the make believe that it exists?
The only "record" that I have seen is statements from Fannie/Freddie officials who deny Gingrich gave any such advise. Besides what Gingrich has said after he left their employ, do you have a cite to these records?
What has “never been proven”? That Gingrich’s firm had a contract with Freddie? That Gingrich was paid? That he did work for them? That is all fact. Gingrich has said so. The mystery is exactly what he did, and how much he personally was paid for it, as opposed to his firm getting paid for it.
I have no idea why Gingrich thinks that is a distinction worth arguing over — given that Gingrich is correctly attackign Romney for what Romney’s company did, it’s hard to see how Gingrich can disavow the actions of his firm, whatever they are.