And will the Podesta/Putin business partnership-John
Podesta’s membership on the executive board of Russian energy company, Joule
Unlimited be investigated? Podesta was Hillary’s campaign manager he
also worked in the Clinton White House.
Thanks to the Panama Papers, we know that the
Podesta Group (founded by John Podesta’s brother, Tony) lobbied for
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank. “Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do
anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, and they don’t tell him ‘no’ either,” explained a
retired senior U.S. intelligence official. According to a Reuters report, Tony Podesta was “among the high-profile
lobbyists registered to represent organizations backing Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovich.” Among these was the European Center, which paid Podesta
$900,000 for his lobbying.
The busy Podesta Group also represented Uranium
One, a uranium company acquired by the Russian government which received
approval from Hillary Clinton’s State Department to mine for uranium in the
U.S. and gave Russia twenty percent control of US uranium. The New York Times reported Uranium One’s chairman, Frank Guistra,
made significant donations to the Clinton Foundation, and Bill Clinton was paid
$500,000 for one speech from a Russian investment bank that has “links to the
Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.”
Notably, Frank Giustra, the
Clinton Foundation’s largest and most controversial donor, does not appear anywhere in Clinton’s “non-private”
emails. It is possible that the emails of such key donors were
automatically scrubbed to protect the Clinton Foundation.
Let’s
not leave out fugitive Ukrainian oligarch, Dymtro Firtash. He is represented by Democratic heavyweight lawyer,
Lanny Davis, who accused Trump of
“inviting Putin to commit espionage” (Trump’s quip: If Putin has Hillary’s
emails, release them) but denies all wrongdoing by Hillary.
