Claim: Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
Fact-check: Did Newt Gingrich pay a $300,000 ethics fine back in the 1990s?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Angie Drobnic Holan;Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2012-02-07T00:00:00