Tony Podesta Made Almost $200K Representing Russian Bank Trying To End Sanctions
In an explosive revelation, The Daily Caller reports that Democrat super-lobbyist Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary Clinton’s national campaign chairman John Podesta, was paid $170,000 in 2016 to represent Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, which was trying to end an Obama administration economic sanctions against Russia.
As a retired senior U.S. intelligence official explained, “Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, and they don’t tell him ‘no’ either.”
Senate lobbying disclosure forms show Tony Podesta listed as a lobbyist for Sberbank; Podesta’s firm, The Podesta Group, garnered over $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
In an explosive revelation, The Daily Caller reports that Democrat super-lobbyist Tony Podesta, brother of Hillary Clinton’s national campaign chairman John Podesta, was paid $170,000 in 2016 to represent Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, which was trying to end an Obama administration economic sanctions against Russia.
As a retired senior U.S. intelligence official explained, “Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, and they don’t tell him ‘no’ either.”
Senate lobbying disclosure forms show Tony Podesta listed as a lobbyist for Sberbank; Podesta’s firm, The Podesta Group, garnered over $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.