Posted on 10/30/2017 8:32:55 AM PDT by Fido969
One of Washington's most powerful lobbying firms did not disclose the wide extent of its lucrative political work for a Ukrainian group tied to both onetime Trump adviser Paul Manafort and to pro-Russian politicians, new records show.
The firm, the Podesta Group, said nothing in a 2012 lobbying report to Congress about at least 32 meetings, emails and other communications it had with the State Department, at a time when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scrutinizing Ukraine's upcoming election, records show.
The new disclosures shed light on the web of contacts between Russian-leaning Ukrainians, Washington lobbyists and U.S. policymakers during the Obama administration. The Podesta Group filed new, detailed lobbying disclosures in April to augment lobbying reports from 2012 to 2014 that had given little detail.
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It’s “Former Trump” guy, all day long.
However, when these abuses occurred he was in bed with Podesta.
Oddly, that’s not mentioned by the MSM.
“The Podesta Group filed new, detailed lobbying disclosures in April”
Hum, let me see. They get an inquiry from the SC about the forms and about manafort. Whoa, we need to file new ones. OK, they file them, they off the hook.
This is a such a one way rail road job to defy proper logic and ethics. The whole DOJ should be forced to walk the plank here. There should be a special place in hell for both Mueller and Comey and by hell, I mean the one after death.
Maybe Manafort will drop a dime on Podesta. I would be concerned if I were him.
The firm is run by Tony Podesta, whose brother, John, is a longtime adviser to Clinton and was chairman of her 2016 presidential campaign. John Podesta was a senior counselor to President Barack Obama in 2014 and had previously been lobbying partners with his brother. He is not currently affiliated with his brother's firm.
cause it’s in the past. It’s old news. It’s already been litigated.
Whatever happened to the story about John Podesta getting 75,000 shares of stock from a Russian energy company (Joule???) that he gifted to his daughter to make him look clean? Was that fake news?
That does not apply to 'you're' unless you are a drive-by media darling and DEMOCRAT. If not I wouldn't try to get away with this kind of thing or you will wind up like Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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