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Thursday, November 02, 2017

Were the Podesta brothers tipped off?

As President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, goes down in the first indictment from the Mueller special prosecution, on charges of failing to file as a registered foreign agent, there's been speculation about why Tony Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager's brother, didn't get indicted, too. He was involved with the same pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank as Manafort.

Joe Hoft at GatewayPundit found an old piece from the Washington Examiner dating from last August that likely explains why:

The Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department on Aug. 17 related to work the firm completed between 2012 and 2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank.

Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Democrats are just scum bags. A lot of republicans also, but all democrats are.

Anonymous said...

Same thing Manafort is charged with so should they. The same time frame same crime. Filing after the fact is still a crime. They were caught and trying to correct a crime. Charge or drop Manafort charges.