The Podesta Group this month amended two biannual lobbying disclosure forms from 2014 and 2015
| Amended, are they? Boy howdy, how did it ever come to pass that the filing deadline for the amendments was just after the election? |
Hillary Clinton... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as
the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
’s presidential campaign.
The amended disclosures came after the Washington Free Beacon reported on the Podesta Group’s apparent violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires foreign government lobbyists to disclose contacts they made with government officials and news media on behalf of their clients.
The foreign government advocacy in question was undertaken on behalf of the government of India, a Podesta Group client since 2010.
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A few months later, on Jan. 1, 2015, Tony emailed John inviting him to an event featuring the Indian ambassador, according to emails posted by WikiLeaks after hackers believed to be acting on behalf of the Russian government breached John’s account.
The meeting and the emails should have been disclosed in the Podesta Group’s original "supplemental" disclosure statements, Craig Engle, a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Arent Fox, told the Free Beacon at the time. But the firm’s supplemental statements did not mention either.