Gingriches Rang Up Big Tiffany & Co. Bill While Jeweler Was Lobbying Her House Committee

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Gingriches Rang Up Big Tiffany & Co. Bill While Jeweler Was Lobbying Her House Committee

Ryan J. Reilly | May 24, 2011, 6:20PM

Tiffany & Co. was actively lobbying the House committee Newt Gingrich's wife Callista was working for at the time the couple had a $250,000 to $500,000 interest-free revolving charge account with the famed jeweler, Jeff Stein reports.

Newt Gingrich has previously touted his Tiffany's bill as evidence of his fiscal responsibility because he paid it off in full. Newt Gingrich also claimed the revolving charge account with Tiffany & Co. came interest-free, but the high-end jewelery company doesn't appear to offer such a deal to your average Joe, the Washington Post reports.

The "diamond and silverware firm was spending big bucks to influence mining policy in Congress and in agencies over which the House Agriculture Committee -- where she worked -- had jurisdiction," according to Stein.

Filings by Tiffany's lobbyist, Cassidy & Co., and other government records show that the firm's spending on "mining law and mine permitting-related issues" in Congress, as well as the Forest Service, the Interior Department, and Interior's Bureau of Land Management shot up sharply between during the period when Callista Gingrich was chief clerk at the House Agriculture Committee.

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scum of the Earth.

[notadmblnd]

1. I'd like to see the cancelled check where he paid it off.

Cause I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the debt was forgiven.

[Snoutport]

5. I want to see their application for the account AND their check to pay it off.

[randr]

2. No matter what she did for Tiffany she would still be the first adulterous first lady

I just can't see that flying past the righter than thou crowd.

[tblue37]

7. Don't you know? IOKIYAR! nt

[sufrommich]

9. I thought that was Nancy Reagan? nt

[Angry Dragon]

3. Let's see the paper work

[Rex]

4. There is nothing worth noting about Newt, everything he does

turns to useless shit. Thank goodness a few of those women escaped with their lives.

[annabanana]

6. No WONDER he wasn't so interested in talking about it. . n/t

[Snoutport]

8. breakfast (and lunch and dinner and some jewels) at Tiffany's...

[sufrommich]

10. Maybe his official campaign song should be Moon River? nt