If and only if Auburn facilitated the money transferring hands. Otherwise Newton will pay and Auburn gets off. USC was punished because they failed to over see and had many issues with donors/alumni/players.
The NCAA will have to prove an organizational failure before this affects Auburn of chiz****
This is nothing new for Auburn, they've been operating a very shady program for years. I wouldn't be suprised if all of this can be traced back to one person, a guy by the name of Bobby Lowder. He's been the most influential booster at AU for a couple of decades now, and he's also been on their board of trustees since about 1983.
When that whole scandal went down about secretly interviewing Bobby Petrino, it was Lowder's jet that flew to Louisville to meet with him. Terry Bowden claims he was fired because he found out about a pay-for-play scheme orchestrated by Lowder and other big-shot boosters.
A google search on this guy turns up a treasure trove of dirt, but I like this article from Mike Fish at ESPN.com (though it's a bit dated):
A Tiger of a trustee - College Football - ESPN