It’s not news that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was paid $1.6 million by Freddie Mac over a period of eight years spanning much of the immediate past decade.

Nor is it news that Gingrich has denied the contention of critics that he was therefore a paid lobbyist for one of the two Government-Sponsored Entities (GSE) that sparked the housing bubble (Fannie mae being the other).

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