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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You are the one that didnt understand the post. It was quite clear. Perhaps I need to explain the word statute.
The fact that someone hasnt been arrested yet really means nothing
Btw..I bet you didnt know until yesterday that GP had been arrested and was cooperating
Not that Podesta would cooperate.
Same. Senseless waste off time.
Would you please stop commenting on FR for a while? I would like to hear what other people have to say.
You mean because propagating a theory that shows Mueller is tainted on trumps behalf is such a fantastic idea????..
Especially if mueller goes after john Podesta???????!!!!
No...I will not stop saying said alliance is ludicrous. Whoever came up with this cockamamie scheme should have consulted a top notch lawyer about ramifications of said secret alliance
Lil Jeff reminds me of a cross between elmer fudd and Henry Gibson from the old Laugh in show
>>Mueller is working to bring down Trump in my opinion.
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Mueller is hellbent on taking down Trump, just like what was years ago done to Scooter Libby. It is insane to suggest there is secret collusion between Trump and Mueller. A zebra doesn’t change his stripes.
You sound like a broken record.
It would be one thing if your argument was reasonable, but it’s not - it is full of straw men and hyperbole. You are tilting at windmills, constantly rebutting things about Mueller that no one has claimed.
It’s getting so tiresome.
There is so much crap on this thread about LS, I can’t even get any info on Podesta.
Everyone just needs to stop. No one is going to change anyone else’s mind.
Sure..lets promote an illegal conspiracy between Special Counsel and Trump
Sheesh..
What’s the story on bannon...
Which is what I hoped Rummy would realize and back off of the individual that she stalked from one thread to another. I spent several hours going from thread to thread to see what freepers thought about current events, and ran into Rummy denegrating the same individual from one thread to another.
It was her self aggrandizing troll comment about that freeper that finally set me off, so you see you and I agree character assassination is not called for.
I’ll go one step further and state that even if someone’s argument is not good, name calling and spite stalking from thread to thread doesn’t add a thing to the discussion.
That’s really all I care to say about what was a very disappointing situation here on FR.
Meuller is playing both sides so he can come out with some amount of credit.
This whole thing stinks.
The Democrats don’t care about Podesta. They’ll let him take the fall for them to save face. Their goal is to hurt Trump. That’s the only goal right now.
Podesta knows where all the Clinton/DNC skeletons are buried, and knows how to leverage them.
Rush just said there are two more sealed indictments.
>>Little Jeffrey Sessions (where is little Jeff right now?)<<
I strongly suspect that Little Jeffy is doing exactly what his Deep State handlers have instructed him to do, which apparently is to keep his yap shut and take long naps.
Rush just said there are two more sealed indictments.
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