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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Insider sent a poster? How long Was this planned then? That poster has been here since 1998.
You report events exactly like MSNBC or CNN. Lots of bias and spin, short on substance.
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Mueller is very crafty at getting indictments, but not so much on convictions.
Watch it play out.
Defense attorneys are vastly smarter than Grand Jurors.
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It's all about context in the law, right? How to warp the case and blow things out of proportion for maximum theatrical effect.
Once they get this past the Obama Negro Lady "judge", probably 90% of the case will fall apart. Even a hot stick like Manafort ain't that stupid, and he does have money for real attorneys.
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The poster is a self agrandising troll.
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I completely agree, and refer you to my last post which points out just what you said.
Ask the person who posted. Said he had inside sources. Also claimed that every poster here but me knows that trump and mueller have an alliance..
I am pretty sure you were on that thread so dont pretend surprise if you were
May be true of mueller but not Weissmann
this just keeps getting better and better...
When is the Podesta’s “tragic!” Plane Crash scheduled for??
These people have the dirt on the ENTIRE DC Swamp.
I am not the one that claimed you..in general.. know that mueller and trump have an alliance
This is his profile:
“Last year, I completed a movie, “Rockin’ the Wall” (http://www.rockinthewall.com) about music’s part in bringing down the Iron Curtain. My previous books include “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” “A Patriot’s History Reader,” “What Would the Founders Say?” “Seven Events that Made America America,” “48 Liberal Lies About American History” and the two most recent books, “A Patriot’s History of the Modern World,” vol. 1, up to 1945, and volume 2, from 1945 to the present.”
You can’t even claim you’re reading between the lines. There’s nothing there.
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The indictments are pure panic.
They would have been out months ago if he was proud of them.
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NO. I am asking you to show me where he specifically says
‘super duper secret alliance” Oh, BTW, how many people have asked to be on your ping list today? Check out a few posts for LS and compare.
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How much per word do writers make these days?
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Inarticulate. I clearly meant his profile to view his posts..but admittedly that is not the word i used. Werent you on the live thread when he made these claims
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Just post something insanely sensational, and you too will get requests!
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I don’t have a pingv list.and from what I hear..if you are on his you should already know about this alliance.
He’s intimated that Mueller is working for Trump
Such an absurd notion that one has to question his sanity.
“I am less surprised by this news than by the fact that
NBC would report it”
Has CNN told us what we are supposed to think about this yet?
Or is it still illegal to form our own opinions?
Again, I am only asking you to back up what you claim. I did not make such a childish claim. Show me where LS said ‘super duper secret alliance”
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