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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So someone from the Trump campaign was colluding with lobbying firms connected with the Clinton campaign?
That is when criminality would have cast a bad light on democrats.
“So someone from the Trump campaign was colluding with lobbying firms connected with the Clinton campaign? “
Which means that under Mueller’s meme and guilt by association, that the Clinton campaign is guilty of...wait for it...collusion with the Russians
Wow. What is this from? Tinfoil.com or a legit source?
Wouldn't be the first time that Obama/Holder/Lynch covered something up.
Nancy Pelosi is fading fast. She won’t see the end of 2017 as Minority Leader.
or unless your assumptions are all wrong.
You posted that before. Where is it from and who posted it?
Manifort is not an idiot. He knows exactly who put him under this scrutiny...
I am less surprised by this news than by the fact that
NBC would report it.
So who are the principals of Mercury Public Affairs?
Little Jeffrey Sessions (where is little Jeff right now?)
As soon as the Dems realize this is backfiring they will DEMAND that Trump fires Mueller!
No one recognizable. Still wonder if A isn’t Fusion GPS...they worked with all kinds of curropt regimes.
Then it only follows that ‘Company C’ is the Clinton Charity/Slush fund, Right? RIGHT?!?!
*Rolleyes*
My first thought when I opened the post was that NBC News reported this! What the heck are they doing reporting things that make a Dim look bad. If NBC reports then there is more to this than meets the eye.
How do you say “ Oh crap!” in Ukrainian?
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