Mitt Romney may need to pay Newt Gingrich $1.6 million before this is all over.
Tuesday morning, the Romney campaign released an email ripping Gingrich for releasing just one year of his many as a consultant to Freddie Mac — work pretty much everyone other than Gingrich has characterized as lobbying. The slightly tongue-in-cheek email offered a $1.6 million “reward” (the amount of the Freddie contract) for the missing documents. On Laura Ingraham’s radio show Tuesday, Gingrich said he wasn’t aware any contracts were missing and said his firm, the Gingrich Group, will call on Freddie to release them.
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