Close, but no cigar.
Every one of the 20 lectures in Renewing American is introduced as a class session from Rhinehart University. It is obviously a college classroom settin and when my boxed set was purchased, it was obviously offered as a revenue source for the GOP.
The charge that brought him down was actually that he unlawfully claimed tax-exempt status for Renewing American Civilization as a political fund-raiser. That's the one the IRS investigated. They concluded that not only was Newt righteous, but that ANYONE could benefit from taking the course in question (because it is so good). . . Why don't you just accept the fact that Gingrich screwed up and was reprimanded for it and move on? . . . .
Newt has made mistakes, and will continue to make mistakes, as all we mortals do.
But he was EXONERATED by the IRS in the ethics charge that took him down.
It was BOGUS.
It was the only one of eighty-four ethics charges that stuck.
Newt has made many blunders (and will make many more) - -This was not one of them.
I'm sure you are capable of doing a little research instead of parroting Gingrich campaign points.
I went to Wikipedia's Gingrich page (including 'references") for this post. I have not had television since May 1995, and have seen maybe five minutes of Newt's current campaign video. My enthusiam for Newt comes from closely following his rise and fall in the '90's. He oversaw the only reform of congress I know of. I turned independent when the GOP turned on Newt, and they haven't gotten a dime from me since then (ditto for Newt).