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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
That would be 2011 to 2012 No? This was all in violation of Dodd-Frank, Please tell me those two Bozo's are not coming out of hiding and will be asking for more Financial Regulation, because obviously their FUBAR-piece didn't work...
I did some Googling and it appears Mercury is aligned with the GOP and the Podesta Group obviously democrat. So when Manafort was hiring a US firm to represent Ukraine interests in 2012 he was bipartisan.
Weird.
Poster LS is reporting the Podesta's are Lawyering up. So Companies A and B are not out of the woods IMHO....
Fixed it..
“pro-Russia Ukranian political party”
fake stream media found a way to get the word “russian” in a story about Ukraine ...
For later.
Nothing to do with Trump if true.
CNN’s breathless hysterical reporting seems to overlook the Podesta angle. I don’t normally watch CNN but I was at the doctors office today.
“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.”
Clarification: 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 [PRO-Russia/PRO-Putin elements within] the Ukranian government.
They were BEGGING for an investigation and now they don’t like the outcome?
Cry.Me.A.River.
To oversimplify this. For Americans, all offshore company entities are structured as:
1. "disregarded" - meaning it flows onto your own tax return as if it isn't a separate entity
2. a real company - operating business that has substance. Not a fake/shell operation.
In this case, it appears Manafort did not report these companies either way, but then wired money from these companies into the US.
Where is this from?
I just googled “What will happen on Monday. What you didn’t know.”
4chan came up. It’s there.
Correct. And one firm was aligned with the GOP, the other with the DEMs.
[FLASHBACK]
Hillary Clinton on Ukraine: Russia behaving like Nazi Germany
MAR 5, 2014
BY JAKE MILLER | CBS News
EXCERPT:
The former secretary of state, speaking at a private fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Long Beach, said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to occupy Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula under the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians there is similar to “what Hitler did back in the 1930s.” (The Los Angeles News Group posted an audio recording of Clinton’s remarks on Wednesday.)
Some of it is true. I’m working on Reid bribery, which leads to John Podesta, then to Joule Unlimited, then Uranium 1 and Senate Majority PAC. Big Big Bonfire coming.
“it appears”
Yes. Indictments - hearsay evidence assembled to foment an arrest - can look any way the shyster, er, lawyuh, wants to make it look.
But why go to the trouble of setting up such corporations if you aren’t going to use them to cover you?
This little case - and it is little - will turn on that. Crap like this goes on every day, and the glitterati push the envelope on it as you know.
Just big noise being made because, after all, that’s the only reason for wasting time on it. As another poster pointed out, Mueller looked at it back in 2012 and said no dice.
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Sounds more and more like Mueller’s case is constructed of old spider webs.
Its obviously not for the purpose of getting a conviction, as much as it is intended to create a smoke screen to delay the prosecution of Clinton and Mueller himself.
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>> “Insiders sent a poster to FR to claim its true.” <<
A high percentage of our traffic is of this nature.
We really need to concentrate on weeding out the “control rod” trolls. They misdirect and use up much bandwidth.
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