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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Painter is a lawyer and former wh ethics advisor
I assume you understand the meaning if the word statute
Okay, let's start there.
There has been no named WH source that has said that the above meeting occurred.
RummyChick: Btw..nothing you will say..no matter how much name throwing you do will convince me trump is play acting when it comes to mueller.
LS:Of course not. Cuz you aren’t persuaded by evidence.
As I have known for months, and as all other freepers have known for months.
What LS is saying is NOT that he and all other freepers have known that Mueller and Trump are working together.
He is saying that YOU aren’t persuaded by evidence.
Geeze woman! GIVE IT A REST!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to request that I be returned 10 minutes of my life I have spent reading people arguing back in forth in this thread without any new info.
equally ludicrous. All freeperss know who I am and know I am not persuaded by evidence
Preposterous
Want to make your claim with specificity. For example..charging doc on GP. Is there language there that indicates GP flipped and possibly wore a wire. This is hard evidence. Is the language there or not?
You can tell how corrupt Robert Mueller and his Hillary donor lawyers are by all the leaking they do. It’s the passive-aggressive way! The gay way of doing things with zero honor. Devoid of honor.
To normal people living far way from the Washingtoon DC swamp (like me) this is how Mueller and his hound dogs look. I suppose that within DC and its wealthy suburbs this special investigator show looks legit and an average part of DC life.
make my slice green peppers and anchovies
Seek and ye shall find:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13/politics/trump-robert-mueller-fbi-director-interview/index.html
Btw.if the bannon story is true..and thats a big if..former wh ethics guy says he is breaking law
Are you so really out of touch that you don’t realize that we are so done with this kind of crap. Do you really think you can sell us on “former wh ethics guy”? Who did this so called “guy” work for? Obama? Maybe he is really old and worked for Bush, or Clinton? LOL. Honestly, who are you really?
I highly recommend sobriety. What claim? You made the claim. I just did what you suggested and went back to LS’S post 398 on the live thread and guess what? He wasn’t talking about anything but YOU.
Here, I can respond the same way you do:
Ridiculous! The flange on the hippocampus is alternately whizzled and conflaborated with Whizzo’s testimony during the standard supeona of calumny of gibberish.
I’m with rlbedfor. I’d like to have read other freepers opinions without having to wade through your diatribes.
Hope you have a better day tomorrow because today - you stepped all over your own decorum.
LOL! I agree wholeheartedly!
Let me be very very clear. Any claim that I dont look at evidence is preposterous. I gave you an example from today that I looked at and evaluated.
Any claim that every freeper knows who I am is also preposterous that is then coupled the with the ludicrous evidence claim
On top of that..and this is the most important part..there should be no alliance between trump and mueller. Any claim that there is from secret sources could cause a subpoena. .and no I am not going to believe there is an alliance that should not exist it just because some poster claims it is true.
Thanks, but no thanks.
The supposed WH source in that story is a CNN unnamed source.
I assume you understand the meaning if the word statute
I assume you understand the meaning OF the word statute
Just wanted to help you out on the post.
so Mueller gets a pardon if he flips ?
See, now this it the kind of condescending comment that get s you in trouble.
I don’t believe this. For starters, Roger Stone is friends with Paul Manafort (has been for years), reported he was going to be indicted a month ago, and said the FBI wanted him to flip on Trump and throw Trump under the bus, but Manafort knows Trump is innocent and refuses.
Second, obviously Podesta wasn’t arrested. Instead we had a couple Trump guys arrested too.
Mueller is working to bring down Trump in my opinion.
Indeed. LS said that “all other freepers have known for months” that RummyChick is not persuaded by evidence.
“All”? That’s absurd, unkind and hysterical.
If your arguments are good, you don’t need character assassination against dissenters.
Thanks, that answers my question...... so this is not meant as News? I have busy life, and some things are harder to understand if not time to research.
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