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While Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich continues to insist that he never lobbied on behalf of clients who paid his consulting firm millions of dollars, a new report from the New York Times revealed that the the former Speaker pushed lawmakers to consider clients for government contracts.

The Times' investigation focuses on Gingrich's work as a consultant for the Center for Health Transformation, a company he founded after leaving Congress. Firms paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the firm, and in exchange Gingrich facilitated meetings between executives and lawmakers. The former Speaker of the House would also promote the companies and their goals in presentations to lawmakers,! The Times found.

Among the discoveries from the paper were presentations and briefing materials given to lawmakers in Florida and Georgia where Gingrich argued that his clients could save government money and provide specific benefits. In one instance, Gingrich told Florida lawmakers that Clearwave - which paid his firm tens of thousands of dollars - could help save the state millions with a new medical patient data system.

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