October 30, 2017
THERE'S SOME HONOR LEFT IN WASHINGTON:
Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe : Podesta announced his decision during a firm-wide meeting Monday morning and is alerting clients of his impending departure. (ANNA PALMER 10/30/2017, Politico)
The investigation into Podesta and his firm grew out of investigators' examination of Manafort's finances. Manafort organized a PR campaign on behalf of a nonprofit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine. Podesta Group was one of several firms that were paid to do work on the PR campaign to promote Ukraine in the U.S.Podesta Group filed paperwork with the Justice Department in April stating that it had done work for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine that also benefited the same Ukrainian political party that Manafort once advised. Podesta Group said at the time it believed its client was a European think tank untethered to a political party.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 30, 2017 7:13 PM