But no............
The Podesta's are democrats so nothing to go on there.......... They will just go after Trump and his family, Preet Bharrara is such a total democratic clown. This is not the law, this is "gotcha" politics from the Southern District of New York..........
https://www.vox.com/...eber-greg-craig
Earlier this year, special counsel Robert Mueller referred a case regarding Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to federal prosecutors in Manhattan. But it turns out, Cohen might not be the only one.
CNN’s Erica Orden reported Tuesday that, since the spring, Mueller made additional referrals to prosecutors in the Southern District of New York regarding whether US lobbyists failed to register their work supporting the Ukrainian government. Those referrals include Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and lobbyist and ex-Minnesota GOP Rep. Vin Weber. Sources told CNN that former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig was also referred by Mueller to federal prosecutors in New York.
No charges have been filed against any of the individuals. The Washington Post reports that the referrals were made months ago, and there hasn’t been much activity on their cases since.
If that all sounds somewhat familiar, it’s because Paul Manafort was charged, along with his associate Rick Gates, with failing to register his lobbying work for pro-Russia Ukrainian politicians. (Manafort’s Virginia trial, which started Tuesday, focuses on his bank fraud and other financial crimes; the trial focusing more closely on his foreign lobbying work starts in September. Gates has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with Mueller.)
Why Podesta and the others might have ended up on Mueller’s radar
Each of these names — Podesta, and his lobbying firm; Weber; and Craig — have separately cropped up in reports about special counsel Mueller’s investigation into Manafort.
As CNN reports, Manafort and Gates paid the Podesta Group and the firm where Weber worked, Mercury Public Affairs, through a nonprofit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, which was trying to bolster the image of the pro-Russian Ukrainian government in power at the time, between 2012 and 2014.
As NBC News previously reported, Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group were believed to be the unnamed “Company A” and “Company B,” respectively, listed in Mueller’s October indictment against Manafort and Gates. When it came to the revealing tidbit in the indictment about the Podesta Group, Vox’s Andrew Prokop noted at the time:
A report from CNN earlier this year described how the Podesta Group repeatedly contacted the State Department about Ukraine’s 2012 election, attempting to put a positive spin on the regime’s handling of the elections. However, and crucially, they didn’t disclose the full extent of their work in federal lobbying filings until earlier this year — and per NBC, that failure to disclose has caught Mueller’s attention. (A Podesta group spokesperson emailed me last week to insist that all appropriate legal disclosures were made.)
Podesta, a powerful Democratic lobbyist who’s the brother of Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chair John Podesta, has been a particular target — mostly from Trump and his allies. The president himself has implied Podesta’s lack of (obvious) legal trouble is an example of the partisan “witch hunt” against himself.
