The same story adds that Gingrich's former chief of staff, Arne Christenson, was hired that year by Fannie Mae as senior vice president for regulatory policy.

Just to remind you, Gingrich is the guy who was saying in September: what you have today is that the rich in Wall Street and the powerful at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had so many politicians beholden to them that, in fact, nobody was going to check them. And so they got away with things that were absolute bologna, and it's a tragedy." />