10-30-2017, 04:26 PM
(10-30-2017, 02:27 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: I haven’t heard anything indicating Podesta intentionally deceived the government, laundered money, evaded taxes, lied to Mueller’s team, conspired against the US government, or anything of that nature.
It may be this (bold is my emphasis):
"Manafort and Gates chose two companies, identified as Company A and Company B in the indictment, to lobby on behalf of the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, a European nonprofit that officials say was created as a mouthpiece for the Party of Regions. Previous news reports have indicated that the two companies are the Podesta Group and Mercury LLC.
The two companies were aware that they were lobbying on behalf of the Ukrainian government and worked with Manafort to conceal their foreign lobbying activities from the public, according to the indictment.
The two companies received payments “solely through off-shore accounts associated with the Manafort-Gates entities,” according to the indictment.
The Podesta Group retroactively filed lobbying disclosures in April admitting their previously hidden Ukrainian lobbying activities."
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/30/podest...ndictment/
Protip: retroactively disclosing your potentially criminal behavior after you're outed doesn't excuse the behavior.