That Gingrich Ethics Probe in 1997

Washington Post  Here are are some of the key Post stories on the House ethics investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). This list begins with this one:

Use of Tax-Exempt Groups Integral to Political Strategy   January 7, 1997 Over the years Gingrich and his top advisers have tried repeatedly to use tax-deductible donations to help promote their political goals, a review of his record shows. 

 The heart of the ethics committee case against House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) involves his use of charitable organizations to subsidize his partisan political activities -- a practice he suggests he could have avoided had he consulted a lawyer and not been so "naive" about the intricacies of the tax code. 

But over the years Gingrich and his top advisers have tried repeatedly to use tax-deductible donations to help promote their political goals, a review of his record shows. Indeed, the availability of groups that could take tax-deductible donations was integral to his ultimately successful plan to wrest control of the House from the Democrats. More...

I suspect Nancy Pelosi (D-CooCoosNest) never planned to release this information; that it was enough for her to put this out there for others to pursue and who but Republicans would do it?
Now the story will become a big deal in the press, so Newt needs to get this out there. Better now than this October if Gingrich is our candidate. TD

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/newt-gingrich-cartoons

Numerous other links at this site, but these should give you the gist of it all.
Ethics Committee Drops Last of 84 Charges Against Gingrich
Gingrich Pays Off Ethics Penalty of $300,000
House Reprimands, Penalizes Speaker
This is the final post at this page: 

IRS Clears Foundation That Aided Gingrich Course  "In its ruling, the IRS said the content of Gingrich's course "was educational and never favored or opposed a candidate for public office."" "It said the foundation "did not intervene on behalf of candidates of the Republican Party merely by promoting" themes in the course." "

NPR weighs in.  You didn't think they would? Then you didn't expect MSNBC to either, did you?

The Hill quotes Pelosi: “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said in an interview with Talking Points Memo. 
“I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff," she said. 

The Hill also quoted John Sununu who said:

"What do you think you're going to find in his [Romney's] taxes? The important thing is to find things that could be an October surprise problem," Sununu said. "Newt Gingrich has a serious problem with the package that the Ethics committee had when they fined him $300,000."

"Ring(sic) out the laundry. That's more important than anything else. Nancy Pelosi was on that group. If Nancy Pelosi knows, President Obama knows. We ought to be able to know now," he added. 

We do want honorable people running this nation, but if there is only these choices I will take unethical over traitorous. 
                                                                                                                         Obama and Pelosi caricatures by donkeyhotey