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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Go to www.keywiki.org and look up “George Soros”. You’ll find both Tony and John Podesta are directly connected to Soros’ leftist operations.
You will be stunned by what is there.
ROFL Swampadelic Uni-partier? That is GOOD.
Vin Weber is a buddy of?????
Bill Kristol.
Funny, ain’t it?
Thank you for the kudo's on my sense of humor, most don't get it :-). I got a million of them like what I call what occurred with PDJT's Victory, it was The Rust Belt Rebellion.
The good news Limbaugh hasn't stolen these two terms.... Yet....
Would you believe there is a place in Toledo, OH called Rustbelt Coffee? Newish restaurant. Owned by Christians. (shh)
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