Posted on 02/06/2019 8:01:11 AM PST by Theoria
Federal prosecutors in recent weeks have been interviewing witnesses about the flow of foreign money to three powerful law and lobbying firms that Paul Manafort recruited seven years ago to help improve the image of the Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, people familiar with the questioning said.
The previously unreported interviews about the flow of the money are among the latest developments in the investigation of key figures who worked at the three firms — Mercury Public Affairs, the Podesta Group and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Prosecutors have focused on the role of Skadden Arps’s lead partner on the account, the former Obama White House counsel Gregory B. Craig, in arranging financing and media coverage for his firms’ work, the people familiar with the questioning said. And the prosecutors, they said, have also been asking about the extent to which the lead partners on the accounts for Mercury and Podesta — Vin Weber, a former Republican member of Congress, and the Democratic fund-raiser Tony Podesta — were involved in orchestrating their firms’ day-to-day lobbying and public relations on the account.
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And the side show drags on.
Podesta? Nah, he’s a Dem. They don’t care about him.
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Mueller Document Suggests Dem Power Broker Tony Podesta Misled Federal Investigators
Law and Crime ^ | 3:44 pm, September 15th, 2018 | Colin Kalmbacher
FR Posted by E. Pluribus Unum
The office of special counsel Robert Mueller released a document which appears to show that longtime Democratic Party power broker Tony Podesta misled federal investigators when questioned about his obligations, and how he understood them, under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The document is dated March 31, 2017 and was released late Saturday morning in line with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request initiated by the New York Times‘ Kenneth Vogel. Taking the form of a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Security Division and addressed to Podesta’s attorney Matthew T. Sanderson, the document reads, in relevant part:
In conclusion, we have determined that Podesta must register under FARA, because the firm’s activities on behalf of the [European Centre For a Modern Ukraine (ECFMU)] constitute “political activities” as defined under the Act and were conducted at the order, request, or under the direction or control of a foreign principal…in furtherance of, and for the purpose of influencing, U.S. government officials and sections of the public within the United States, with reference to the political or public interests, policies or relations of a foreign government or foreign political party.
The document continues, noting, “the principal beneficiary of the political activities conducted within the United States was the Ukrainian government and/or the [pro-Russian] Party of Regions.” (Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...
Yesterday I got a phone call from Iran. I did not answer because I might be investigated.
+98 (0) 2722 0823
Who in Iran knows that I am?
Shouldn’t we respect the Genovese,Bonano and Gambina families by not smearing them being in a cartoon next to the ugly ,arrogant Satanic Clinton family?
Just a gentle question.
How many babies died by abortion due to Clinton and Dem policies during the Clinton years? Plus Benghazi and terrorists during Hillary’s work in the Obama administration? Thus, a lot of people died due to the Clintons and not in a gangster warehouse meeting crossfire or revenge vendetta.
Did you answer an Ad for Iranian brides by any chance?
nope
If he turns over a rock in the world of Big Law and Big Lobbying he may not live long enough to see the end of the investigation. That whole industry is graft.
That you am what?
In the Shakesperien sense that Hamlet asked about being.
I am
Why the gloves do not come off is beyond me. MAGA is running out of time even with a little life from the SOTU last night.
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