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Sources: Podesta Group, Mercury Are Companies ‘A’ and ‘B’ in Indictment
NBC News ^ | October 30, 2017 | by JULIA AINSLEY, TOM WINTER and CAROL E. LEE

Posted on 10/30/2017 12:46:38 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The lobbying firms the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs are the unnamed companies in the grand jury indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

The indictment, unsealed Monday, refers to "Company A" and "Company B" as the firms Manafort and Gates solicited in 2012 to lobby on behalf of the Ukranian government. Company A is Mercury Public Affairs and Company B is the Podesta Group, the sources said.

The revelation of the companies’ identities points to more details about the players involved in the high-stakes venture run by Manafort and Gates to push the interest of a pro-Russia Ukranian political party inside the United States. It also provides a glimpse into the material special prosecutor Robert Mueller has corroborated on both companies and the potential legal repercussions both groups could face.

According to the indictment, the lobbying firms were paid $2 million from offshore accounts controlled by Manafort.

Their work included lobbying "multiple members of Congress and their staffs about Ukraine sanctions, the validity of Ukraine elections" that the reasons for imprisoning Yulia Tymoshenko, the political rival of Russian-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

The indictment also revealed that Gates told Company A, now known to be Mercury, in February 2012 that it would be "representing the Government of Ukraine in [Washington] D.C."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201202; companya; companyb; grandjury; manafort; mercury; mercurypublicaffairs; mpa; mueller; muellerinvestigation; podesta; podestagroup; rickgates; russia; tonypodesta; trump; trumprussia; tymoshenko; ukraine; vinweber
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To: FreeReign

There are 4 mystery sealed indictments that may or may not be related


181 posted on 10/30/2017 6:08:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Oops..inarticulate..not indictments...cases..which could be anything..


182 posted on 10/30/2017 6:09:10 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

You have no sources at all. And you will not listen to evidence.

This thing is passing you by.


183 posted on 10/30/2017 6:10:24 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: Just mythoughts
Personally, I am sick of all the bitching about Sessions, when only the people, those he supervises, knows what he is doing...

We know that Sessions has recused himself concerning all matters Hillary. So we know Sessions is not doing those things.

And people should complain about that.

184 posted on 10/30/2017 6:10:39 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: EarlyBird

Sure i have sources for information..not inside sources..or media sources or federal employee sources. NONE
Exactly what evidence am I not listening to?


185 posted on 10/30/2017 6:14:31 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick
There are 4 mystery sealed indictments that may or may not be related

Was Podesta registered as a foreign agent?

186 posted on 10/30/2017 6:14:31 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Cant answer. There are only certain things that interested me. Cant tell you much on flynn or podesta..

Except both podestas are creepy


187 posted on 10/30/2017 6:16:16 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: JoSixChip

Then why go after Podesta?


188 posted on 10/30/2017 6:21:06 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Then why go after Podesta?

There was an indictment against Podesta?
189 posted on 10/30/2017 6:31:12 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Repeal and replace the gopE.)
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To: RummyChick; LS

Oh, just about everything that is popping out today all around you.

You continue to harangue LS when he is proven more correct every minute.

You refuse to believe that Mueller could end up being a good guy. I will wait and see - and LS always says that he could be wrong. But he hasn’t been wrong yet.

So bookmark this thread. IMO, the person who is running the most risk of looking like a fool in a few weeks is you, not LS.


190 posted on 10/30/2017 6:37:30 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: EarlyBird

exactly... With specificity..what evidence am I ignoring..if you mean some poster claiming Mueller is working for trump in some kind of alliance when legally he shouldn’t be..yep.dont believe it.
.what else do you have with specificity.


191 posted on 10/30/2017 6:41:24 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: EarlyBird

I have someone evidence for you. THE SNITCH was just in london. Professor in charging doc was from london.

Charging doc wording indicates what sometimes is wearing a wire

What evidence relating to your claim about the trump/mueller alliance was possibly being gathered in London...just days before charge is unsealed


192 posted on 10/30/2017 6:50:31 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

The evidence is piling up all around you as we speak.

Maybe start with the Trump interview of Mueller and go from there.

But you have a preconceived vision of reality that no evidence will allow you to see different possibilities.

I wait and see. You, without any evidence and only with conjecture, discount arguably our most famous FReeper as “some poster”.

I’m just giving you friendly feedback - and it will be the last feedback I give you - that your unsourced conjecture is only that, and really gives no basis for the tirades you have been on today.


193 posted on 10/30/2017 6:59:39 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: EarlyBird

You mean interview of Mueller before he started turning the screws..yep..ignoring it..no alliance based on that

I repeat. .legally there should no alliance
what else with specificity


194 posted on 10/30/2017 7:05:14 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: SoFloFreeper; wtd

See link in wtd’s post

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3599998/posts?page=26#26

4chan.


195 posted on 10/30/2017 8:15:41 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: EarlyBird

New info out tonight about bannon that totally negates your theory.

Of course..the stories might not be true


196 posted on 10/30/2017 8:30:23 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Btw.if the bannon story is true..and thats a big if..former wh ethics guy says he is breaking law


197 posted on 10/30/2017 8:38:55 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Btw.if the bannon story is true..and thats a big if..former wh ethics guy says he is breaking law


Former white house ethics guy? I’m sorry but bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

What former ethics guy is this? bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Please. stop. You believe a former white house ethics guy? Really? Yeah, all that ethic-ing in the former white house.


198 posted on 10/30/2017 8:44:45 PM PDT by magglepuss
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To: magglepuss

Painter provides the statute


199 posted on 10/30/2017 8:45:48 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

what are you talking about?


200 posted on 10/30/2017 8:52:42 PM PDT by magglepuss
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