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Tony Podesta Made $500K Lobbying For Chinese Firm Convicted Of Illegal Sales To Iran
"Democratic super-lobbyist Tony Podesta grossed more than $500,000 to represent a Chinese company criminally convicted in March of sending illegal shipments of telecom equipment to Iran.
The seriousness of the illegal sales to Iran were so extreme and continued for so long — from 2010 to last year — the Department of Justice (DOJ) imposed a record $1.19 billion fine on the ZTE Telecommunications company, making it the largest penalty ever imposed in a U.S. sanctions case.
The Chinese firm hired the Podesta Group, one of Washington’s biggest and best-connected lobbying companies in the nation’s capital, in January 2016. ZTE retained Podesta’s personal help as negotiations intensified for a final resolution with DOJ during the final year of President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House.
The Shenzhen-based company pleaded guilty on March 7 to violating a 22-year-old ban on shipments to Iran, including “conspiring by illegally shipping … U.S.-origin items to Iran, obstructing justice and making a material false statement,” according to the DOJ.
Podesta also had personal connections throughout the Democratic Party. He was former President Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign director and worked for four prior Democratic candidates, including former Sens. George McGovern, Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale, as well as former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
ZTE paid Podesta $35,000 per month as negotiations peaked in 2016, according to data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics. The payments to the Podesta Group began in January 2016 and continue to this day, according to his company’s lobbying disclosure forms.
Podesta’s lobbying firm grossed $530,000 from ZTE through the first quarter of 2017.
The firm reported its activities to the clerk of the U.S. Senate, including actively lobbying officials at the departments of Justice, Commerce, Treasury and State, as well as the White House National Security Council (NSC).
Podesta also represented ZTE in 2013 to encourage the departments of Defense and State to maintain “open and transparent markets in U.S.-China trade relations,” according to a Reuters report that estimated ZTE paid Podesta $1.44 million in fees though March 2016."
Bill Clinton was working for Vlad's buddies, Ex-KGB
Hillary was taking money from foreigners - some 'not so much allies'
Her campaign manager is working for the Russians - 1/3 of his Company's board members are 1/3rd Prominent businessmen highly connected to the Kremlin
Her campaign manager's brother is working for the KGB bank and the Russian spy network that hacked the DNC's e-mails, AND he is working for the Chinese firm that was CONVICTED of Illegal sales to Iran.
While all this is going on the Hillary campaign was paying money to groups to have violent protestors attend Trump rallies to beat and bloody Trump supporters...to riot, loot, fire-bomb GOP HQs, etc
The entire Clinton Camp - Mom, Pop, and the 3 Podesta kids - were dealing with, aiding/ abetting, working with Americans enemies to make a profit.
And the poor, CRIMINAL decision-making of all of them, including DWS, endangered our national security.
Let's not forget Debbie-Wasserma-Schultz who decided to ignore the Espionage investigation of the 3 Pakistani spy brothers connected to terrorists and their BAN from the House to hire one of the brothers and give him access to the DNC server, e-mails, and an I-pad containing Democrats usernames and password ... to the e-mails that were hacked, stolen, and embarrassing released.
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Podesta Made $500K Lobbying For Chinese Firm Convicted Of Illegal Sales To Iran
"Democratic super-lobbyist Tony Podesta grossed more than $500,000 to represent a Chinese company criminally convicted in March of sending illegal shipments of telecom equipment to Iran.
The seriousness of the illegal sales to Iran were so extreme and continued for so long — from 2010 to last year — the Department of Justice (DOJ) imposed a record $1.19 billion fine on the ZTE Telecommunications company, making it the largest penalty ever imposed in a U.S. sanctions case.
The Chinese firm hired the Podesta Group, one of Washington’s biggest and best-connected lobbying companies in the nation’s capital, in January 2016. ZTE retained Podesta’s personal help as negotiations intensified for a final resolution with DOJ during the final year of President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House.
The Shenzhen-based company pleaded guilty on March 7 to violating a 22-year-old ban on shipments to Iran, including “conspiring by illegally shipping … U.S.-origin items to Iran, obstructing justice and making a material false statement,” according to the DOJ.
Podesta also had personal connections throughout the Democratic Party. He was former President Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign director and worked for four prior Democratic candidates, including former Sens. George McGovern, Edward Kennedy and Walter Mondale, as well as former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
ZTE paid Podesta $35,000 per month as negotiations peaked in 2016, according to data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics. The payments to the Podesta Group began in January 2016 and continue to this day, according to his company’s lobbying disclosure forms.
Podesta’s lobbying firm grossed $530,000 from ZTE through the first quarter of 2017.
The firm reported its activities to the clerk of the U.S. Senate, including actively lobbying officials at the departments of Justice, Commerce, Treasury and State, as well as the White House National Security Council (NSC).
Podesta also represented ZTE in 2013 to encourage the departments of Defense and State to maintain “open and transparent markets in U.S.-China trade relations,” according to a Reuters report that estimated ZTE paid Podesta $1.44 million in fees though March 2016."
Bill Clinton was working for Vlad's buddies, Ex-KGB
Hillary was taking money from foreigners - some 'not so much allies'
Her campaign manager is working for the Russians - 1/3 of his Company's board members are 1/3rd Prominent businessmen highly connected to the Kremlin
Her campaign manager's brother is working for the KGB bank and the Russian spy network that hacked the DNC's e-mails, AND he is working for the Chinese firm that was CONVICTED of Illegal sales to Iran.
While all this is going on the Hillary campaign was paying money to groups to have violent protestors attend Trump rallies to beat and bloody Trump supporters...to riot, loot, fire-bomb GOP HQs, etc
The entire Clinton Camp - Mom, Pop, and the 3 Podesta kids - were dealing with, aiding/ abetting, working with Americans enemies to make a profit.
And the poor, CRIMINAL decision-making of all of them, including DWS, endangered our national security.
Let's not forget Debbie-Wasserma-Schultz who decided to ignore the Espionage investigation of the 3 Pakistani spy brothers connected to terrorists and their BAN from the House to hire one of the brothers and give him access to the DNC server, e-mails, and an I-pad containing Democrats usernames and password ... to the e-mails that were hacked, stolen, and embarrassing released.
EXCLUSIVE: Tony Podesta Made $500K Lobbying For Chinese Firm Convicted Of Illegal Sales To Iran
