Gingrich’s list, presidential book contracts, and job accounting
1. Gingrich’s Profits From His “Personal” Mailing List: The Washington Post’s Dan Eggen did a terrific story last week detailing how former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accumulated large debts early on...
View ArticleOil spill muckraking, SEC excuses, and Gingrich’s taxes
1. The Muck Around the BP-Halliburton Oil Spill Legal Fights Earlier this month, BP filed papers in federal court alleging that Halliburton – which built the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon offshore well...
View ArticleThe Dodd-Frank effect, unions and private equity, and Newt’s expenses
1. The Dodd-Frank effect: Good, bad or both? Although the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the mega-agency created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill, has only been in existence for about...
View ArticleNewt’s new gigs, following the Sandy money, and hedge-fund matchmakers
1. Newt’s new gigs: One of my favorite side stories of last year’s presidential campaign had to do with the details that emerged about all the money Newt Gingrich had been making in recent years...
View ArticleMore questions for Snowden and the GOP establishment takes on the 2016 primaries
By Steven Brill 1. Snowden questions NBC missed: In his interview with NBC’s Brian Williams last week, Edward Snowden tried to bolster his credentials this way: “I was trained as a spy in sort of the...
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