BREAKING: PODESTA INDICTMENT FOR MONEY LAUNDERING POSSIBLE FROM OFFSHORE PAYMENTS BY MANAFORT GATES

New indictment hits Paul Manafort and Rick Gates with tax and bank fraud charges
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“The emails show Gates personally directed two Washington lobbying firms, Mercury LLC and the Podesta Group Inc., between 2012 and 2014 to set up meetings between a top Ukrainian official…” apnews.com/6eed1ef61eb744e1aa…
The indictment said the Centre for a Modern Ukraine was “the nominal client” for Company A and B, when in fact the firms were paid through offshore accounts associated with entities owned or controlled by Manafort and Gates. www.bloomberg.com/news/articl…
Three other current and former Podesta Group employees told the AP the ECMU work caused disagreements to break out among staffers, one of whom also said they considered the arrangement to be “obviously illegal.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/pod…
paid nearly $1.5 million over the preceding two years to the firms of lobbying heavyweights like Republican former Reps. Vin Weber and Billy Tauzin and Democrat Anthony Podesta www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/…