DC: Tony Podesta and his Democratic lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, are now being investigated as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, three sources with knowledge told NBC News.
Mueller’s investigators began looking into the Podesta Group after they discovered that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked with the firm on a pro-Ukrainian lobbying effort. What began as a cursory examination of the firm, designed to gauge Manafort’s level of involvement in the lobbying campaign, has become a criminal investigation into possible violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by the Podesta Group, sources told NBC News.
Manafort reportedly worked along side the Podesta Group for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), a nonprofit dedicated to increasing pro-Ukrainian sentiment in the west. Investigators are currently examining whether the lobbying firm violated FARA by failing to disclose their work for a foreign government. Both Manafort and the Podesta Group did not disclose their relationship with the ECMU until media reports exposed the arrangement.
The ECMU is reportedly backed by the party of Regions, a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party funded by oligarchs who paid Manafort’s firm millions. more here
h/t Bad_Brad
Mueller’s job on this is to bury it so deep it doesn’t see the light of day. We need a true Independent Counsel on this as well as Uraniumgate.
joe6pak is right, they are being proactive, the results will be the same as the FBI investigation into Hillary – nothing to see here, we can move on.
I haven’t heard Trump doing much bitching about Mueller in a while. Maybe they have a back channel.
Are they going to send the jackboots to toss Tony Podesta’s house in the middle of the night, like they did Paul Manafort? Somehow, I don’t think so.
Podestarast & Co. will be exonerated in a thorough examination of all his movements, associations and finances. The number of missing children will increase exponentially. I
The correct headline: The Podesta Group joins Mueller framing, ah investigation, team.
Most of Pedosta’s crimes can be solved by a DNA sample.
Tell me again, what does he know about Uranium again? He a scientist? Big Madam Curie fan?
Oh, he’s a smear merchant for a failed Presidential candidate. Makes as much sense as Biden’s cokehead, 42-year old Navy dishonorable discharge getting put on the board of Burisma Holdings in the Ukraine.
What, there were no better attorney’s than the VP’s son?
Fuck these crooks with a rusty pitchfork.
“Fuck these crooks with a rusty pitchfork.”
Please
Mueller didn’t do anythig about podesta/clinton and russia when he forst learned of it, back in 2010 or so. He did bury it, and didn’t tell Congress or other appropriate regulating agencies. Why he is allowed to determine what he will, and won’t investigate, is beyond me. And later we will hear, from clinton herself ‘that was looked into.’
Throw mueller in the same cell as the underwear bomber. Throw lobotard cowgirl in there too.
Mueller had to go after Tony Podesta, because he was head of the Podesta Group that Manafort was working for at the time on the Ukrainian deal …. he’s trying to get Manafort to sing something …. anything! …. he desperately needs a scalp to hang on his belt to keep the heat off himself & the traitorous Obama Administration
good explanation here … http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/10/mueller_forced_to_investigate_tony_podesta.html
Investigating Trump and yet that road to corruption leads to Hillary. Don’t they all?