Podesta Group Retroactively Files Additional DOJ Disclosures for Pro-Putin Work

Since the media love talking about Russia...

The purported Trump-Russia collusion is perhaps one of the most hypocritical narratives conjured up by Democrats in quite some time, namely because Hillary Clinton, while serving as Sec. of State, used her position to secure the sale of 20% of our nation's uranium production to the Russian government-backed UraniumOne, and because her campaign chairman John Podesta was also up to his neck in lucrative pro-Putin deals from at least 2012 to 2014. 

In fact, just days ago on August 17th, the Podesta Group retroactively filed new DOJ disclosures relating to its work on behalf of a pro-Russia think tank. The Washington Examiner reports

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. 

[...] The Aug. 17 filings include short-form registration statements for six Podesta Group employees and an amendment to the firm's registration statement that includes a list of political contributions made by relevant employees throughout 2013.

A review of those donations shows both parties received cash from Podesta Group lobbyists.

The individual employee filings appear to be uniform and lawyerly, each describing what their services were supposed to entail as, "Research and analyze issues related to principal's organizational mission of improving ties between Ukraine and the West counsel on activities in Congress and executive branch and developments that relate to the principal's organizational mission; and maintain contact, as needed, with legislative and executive branch officials, members of the media, and NGOs." One of the filings is for Tony Podesta himself, who was a bundler for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Tony and his brother John--Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman--co-founded the lobbying firm in 1988.

[...] At the time of the firm's retroactive filing in April, Politico reported CEO Kimberly Fritts "said in a statement that the firm relied on assurances from the think tank, the European Centre for Modern Ukraine, that it was not controlled or financed by a foreign government or political party. 

But you won't hear mainstream media covering any of this, of course. They have moved on from the Russia narrative to the Charlottesville narrative.

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