Gingrich's private equity past (part 2)

More private equity hypocrisy from Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich doubled down on his private equity attacks yesterday, characterizing Mitt Romney's Bain Capital deals as "exploitative."

It would seem that Gingrich -- who fancies himself one of the world's leading intellectuals -- has adopted Emerson's credo that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

First, we reported that Gingrich had served as an adviser to private equity firm Forstmann Little & Co. upon leaving Congress. Then Paul Levy of JLL Partners told Bloomberg that his firm paid Gingrich $60,000 for a speech "praising" private equity at the firm's annual meeting two years ago.

Now Fortune has learned that Gingrich also made money in 2009 from giving a keynote address at ACG Intergrowth, a Las Vegas conference featuring more than 2,000 private equity deal-makers and service providers. Gingrich's contract precluded ACG from recording his speech, although one attendee tell me that he was "singing [private equity's] praises all the way."

ACG also is not allowed to disclose the amount it paid Gingrich. Below was the event brochure: