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    Tony Podesta offered immunity to testify against Paul Manafort

    Tony Podesta offered immunity to testify against Paul Manafort

    By Amy Lieu
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    Tony Podesta has been offered immunity by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify against Paul Manafort, Fox News' Tucker Carlson reported, citing two unnamed sources.

    Podesta is the founder of the Podesta Group and brother of John Podesta, who was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

    The Podesta Group reportedly worked with Manafort -- a former chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign -- to lobby on behalf of Ukrainian interests in the United States, without properly registering at the time under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), Carlson said.

    Manafort and the group worked on a campaign called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, the Washington Times reported.

    "In other words, for a near identical crime, Bill and Hillary's friend could escape and emerge completely unscathed while Paul Manafort may rot in jail," Carlson said.

    Podesta did not register as a foreign agent under FARA, Carlson said in a segment last October.

    Tony Podesta reportedly tells his staff he will fight the allegations; reaction from Rep. Doug Collins, vice chair of the House Republican Conference and a member of the Judiciary Committee.

    Mueller is also offering immunity to five potential witnesses in the upcoming trial of Manafort, the Washington Examiner reported.

    Mueller's team is requesting "use immunity," which is a limited type of immunity, the publication reported, citing court documents filed Tuesday.

    The five people have not been charged or identified publicly with the case, prosecutors for Mueller’s team said, according to the Examiner.

    Tony Podesta resigned from his lobbying group in October in response to Mueller’s investigation of the firm, the report said.

    The firm was reportedly closed by the end of last year.

    The special counsel’s office did not immediately respond for comment.

    Manafort is accused of multiple financial crimes in connection with lobbying work he performed in Ukraine. The first of his two upcoming trials, in Virginia, is scheduled to begin next week.

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    I don't understand this case, because if you're doing consulting, you aren't required to register as a foreign agent, and everything Manafort was doing in Ukraine from what I've read was political legal consulting in Ukraine, not here. I wish the trial was televised but it probably won't be, so we'll probably never know the whole story. Shame! Demand the Manafort trial be televised.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I don't understand this case, because if you're doing consulting, you aren't required to register as a foreign agent, and everything Manafort was doing in Ukraine from what I've read was political legal consulting in Ukraine, not here. I wish the trial was televised but it probably won't be, so we'll probably never know the whole story. Shame! Demand the Manafort trial be televised.
    The authorities are looking like the SS or Gestapo. We The People are not allowed to know what the government is doing. People are taken away and we are to trust the likes of Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, Comey, and the like. And of course these people, corrupt as they are, criticize President Trump for criticizing them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jtdc View Post
    The authorities are looking like the SS or Gestapo. We The People are not allowed to know what the government is doing. People are taken away and we are to trust the likes of Clapper, Brennan, Strzok, Comey, and the like. And of course these people, corrupt as they are, criticize President Trump for criticizing them.
    Exactly!! Stay the course, Mr. President.
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