Breaking! Manafort Investigation Led To Podesta

Let the swamp drain. No matter how hard they try to turn this against Trump, it just keeps back firing on them. God’s hand in this?? Seems like devine provenance to me.

Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta is stepping down from his firm, the Podesta Group, after finding himself a target of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia, Politico reports. Podesta was reportedly sucked into Mueller’s probe during an investigation into the finances of President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. “Manafort organized a PR campaign on behalf of a nonprofit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine,” Politico writes. “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 — whose brother, John Podesta, served as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman — told his staff Monday that he was stepping down because he “needs to fight this as an individual, but doesn’t want the firm to fight it,” a person familiar with the farewell speech said. Podesta will be succeeded by the firm’s CEO, Kimberley Fritts.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/734194/muellers-manafort-investigation-reportedly-led-democratic-lobbyist-tony-podesta

Down the rabbit hole we go…Back in 2014, it was known that the Podesta group was involved in backing the candidate Viktor Yanukovych

Two heavyweight lobbying firms sold their services to represent an innocuous sounding think tank based in Brussels, Belgium called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECFMU). Now those lobbyists are in limbo.

On paper, the Centre represented itself as a non-partisan research institution that pressed for Ukraine’s integration with the European Union. In reality, it was closely tied to the party of Viktor Yanukovych and one of his principal financial backers, Sergei Klyuyev.

The two firms that got the ECFMU contract are the Podesta Group, which is run by the brother of White House special counselor John Podesta, Tony; and Mercury, a public relations firm staffed by former GOP Congressman Vin Weber and other Republican lobbyists.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraines-dc-lobbyists-in-disarray-as-dictator-flees