The Gates & Manafort indictment is labeled “Indictment (B)”. There must be another sealed indictment. It’s not George Papadopoulos; That has a different case number.
This archived AP article says Paul Manafort and Rick Gates secretly funneled money to The Podesta Group and hired them to lobby on behalf of Ukrainians. If Manafort and Gates are guilty of not registering as foreign agents and money laundering, so are Tony and John Podesta!!
Question of the day: Did Manafort use the Podesta Group to route pro-Russian funds to the Clintons in order to secure the Uranium One deal?
The allegations in his report, if true, indicate that Manafort allegedly was: 1) Frequently present at the Podesta Group’s offices during 2012-2014 2) A direct conduit for funneling Eastern European and Russian funds into the Podesta Group in order to, among other things, secure the Clintons’ assistance in regard to Uranium One..
This is different from way Manafort was described during August 2016. Back in Aug. 2016, the AP claimed that Manafort and Gates “directed” the activities of the Podesta group on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party. But Carlson’s report, if correct, indicates a much closer relationship.
Under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act, people who lobby on behalf of foreign political leaders or political parties must provide detailed reports about their actions to the Justice Department. A violation is a felony and can result in up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
The emails illustrate how Gates worked with Mercury and the Podesta Group on behalf of Ukrainian political leaders. None of the firms, nor Manafort or Gates, disclosed their work to the Justice Department counterespionage division responsible for tracking the lobbying of foreign governments.
“There is no question that Gates and Manafort should have registered along with the lobbying firms,” said Joseph Sandler of Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, a Democratic-leaning Washington law firm that advises Republican and Democratic lobbyists.
Manafort and Gates have said that they did not disclose their activities to the Justice Department because they did not oversee lobbying efforts and merely introduced the Washington firms to a Brussels-based nonprofit, the European Center for a Modern Ukraine, which they said ran the project. The center paid Mercury and the Podesta Group a combined $2.2 million over roughly two years.
The emails appear to contradict the assertion that the nonprofit’s lobbying campaign operated independently from Manafort’s firm.
In papers filed in the U.S. Senate, Mercury and the Podesta Group listed the European nonprofit as an independent, nonpolitical client. The firms said the center stated in writing that it was not aligned with any foreign political entity.
The 1938 U.S. foreign agents law is intended to track efforts of foreign government’s unofficial operatives in the United States.
Political consultants are generally leery of registering under it, because their reputations can suffer once they are on record as accepting money to advocate the interests of foreign governments — especially if those interests conflict with America’s. Moreover, registering under the law would have required Gates, Manafort or the lobbying firms to disclose the specifics of their lobbying work and their efforts to sway public opinion through media outreach.
Ina Kirsch, who runs the European nonprofit, has said the group’s work was independent and its goal was to bring Ukraine into the fold of Europe. The center has declined for years to reveal specific sources of its funding.
Gates confirmed to the AP previously that he was working for Ukraine’s ruling party, the Party of Regions, at the time.
Here’s The Indictment Against Paul Manafort And Rick Gates (It had nothing to do with Manafort’s work on the Trump campaign):
A John Podesta email includes an attachment of a letter sent by Senator Grassley to Loretta Lynch demanding an investigation into Uranium One. A.G. Lynch ignored and squashed the investigation
A Wikileaks email, titled “Grassley letter” points to possible collusion between the Department Of Justice and the Clinton Campaign on Uranium One. A letter from Senator Chuck Grassley to Loretta Lynch questioning the Uranium One deal ended up in the hands of a Clinton Foundation Senior VP and ultimately in the hands of John Podesta and the Clinton campaign.
Senator Grassley needs a worthy nickname. We should start drafting our own legends around the patriots of this period just as the Founding Fathers did. I my opinion Senator Grassely will be one of the heros of our New American Revolution where we Drain the Swamp.
More Evidence: “It’s out there”
Another email, dated 4/29/2015, from Jennifer Palmieri to John Podesta, titled “It’s out there“, when news of Uranium One first hit the Internet.
Brian Fallon, Hillary’s press secretary, and Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary’s director of communications were the initial recipients of the message. Palmieri then forwarded it to Hillary’s campaign chairman John Podesta, adding, “Fyi.”
