Ever wonder why the news media is not reporting on this? If Trump did this it would be headlines now until Nov.8th.
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WikiLeaks: New Evidence Podesta Schemed to Hide
Russian-Tied Assets
Posted By Edmund Kozak On October 26,
2016 @ 12:08 PM In Poli | Comments Disabled
An
email released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday morning appears to prove Clinton
campaign Chairman John Podesta created a holding company in order to
conceal his interests in an energy company with deep ties to the Putin
regime.
Two
weeks ago, a leaked email also published by WikiLeaks first revealed that
Podesta transferred his holdings in the Putin-linked company Joule Unlimited to
a private holding company — Leonidio LLC — upon joining the Obama
administration.
“Podesta
began taking steps to hide his interests in Joule [on] his second day as an
Obama administration official.”
“The
disclosure that Clinton Chair John Podesta transferred his shares in
Putin-backed Joule Unlimited to an anonymous holding company when he joined the
Obama Administration is extremely concerning,” the Trump campaign said in an
official statement at the time. “Because the holding company is completely
anonymous, we do not know whether or not he still has deep financial ties to
Vladimir Putin and his regime.”
Last
week, Breitbart reported that WikiLeaks released an email detailing the
transfer of Joule stock to Leonidio and listing Megan Rouse — Podesta’s
daughter-in-law — as a managing member of Leonidio. Her address is also listed
as the address for Leonidio, proving Podesta’s ties to Russian interests were
not severed when he joined the Obama administration.
Now,
WikiLeaks has published what could be the “smoking gun.” The email released on
Wednesday is an invoice — aptly titled “Government Ethics Matters” — sent to
Podesta in March 2014 from international law firm Steptoe & Johnson LLC for
their services in creating Leonidio LLC. It shows Podesta began taking steps to
hide his interests in Joule [on] his second day as an Obama administration
official.
An
August report by the Government Accountability Institute found that Podesta
failed to disclose his full involvement with Joule Unlimited before joining the
Obama administration — nor did he disclose the full extent of his
interests in Joule in his federal disclosure, listing only two of the three
Joule boards on which he sat. The report further notes that “in his 2014
federal government disclosure filing, Podesta lists that he divested stock
options from Joule.”
Divesting
from shares in companies that could provoke conflicts of interest is
standard practice for private individuals going into government. Indeed, when
Dick Cheney became vice president, his shares in Halliburton were transferred
to a blind trust.
[1]WikiLeaks: Clinton Adviser Says Deploy the ‘Brown and Women
Pundits’ [1]Aides plotted to alter coverage of Hillary by stirring
outrage from minority talking heads [1]
Transferring
one's shares to a "private" holding company which one owns and which
lists one's daughter-in-law as a managing member, however, in no way
removes conflict of interest.
Another
email published by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveals a friend of Podesta's begged
him to disassociate himself from Clinton's campaign. "You represent a
client that is not honest and is most likely criminal. Hillary and Bill are not
worth trying to defend as they are manipulative and they use people,"
wrote Joe Littlefield in April 2015.
"Not exactly presidential material. Your
defense of them [loses] all [credibility] to those that admire you." Turns
out Podesta may be just as unethical as the family he serves so loyally.
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