When Are Democrats Going To Be As Concerned With Podesta's "Gift" Of $35 Million From Russia?

REPORT: JOHN PODESTA RECEIVED $35 MILLION FROM RUSSIA, HAS STOCK IN RUSSIAN COMPANY

MARCH 28, 2017

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John Podesta may have violated federal law by failing to disclose stocks he has in a Kremlin-funded company, reports Breitbart. 

The outlet also states that Podesta appears to be linked to a $35 million transaction between a Kremlin-funded company and a company he sat on the board of.

Making these claims is none other than Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer – the author of “Clinton Cash.”

Speaking on Fox & Friends this morning, Schweizer said the following:

In 2011, John Podesta joins the board of this very small energy company called Joule Energy based out of Massachusetts. About two months after he joins the board of a Russian entity called Rusnano, puts a billion rubles which is about 35-million-dollars into John Podesta’s company.

Now, what is Rusnano? It’s not a private company. It is directly funded by the Kremlin. In fact, the Russian science minister called Rusnano Putin’s child.

So, you have the Russian government investing in one John Podesta’s business in 2011, while he is an advisor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department.

It gets deeper.

Schweizer went on to point out that Podesta went to the White House in 2013 “to be a special counselor to Barack Obama.”

Tony Podesta (right) with Barack Obama (Image via Anon HQ)

He said:

That requires that you have financial disclosures every year. In his financial disclosure form in 2013, [Podesta] not only fails to disclose these 75,000 shares of stock that he has in Joule Energy which is funded in part by the Russian government.

He also fails to disclose that he is on one of the three corporate boards that this entity has. It’s got this very complex ownership structure.

He discloses he is on the company in Massachusetts, that he is on the board of a company in the Netherlands, but he fails to disclose that he is also on the executive order of the holding company.

That’s a clear violation of the disclosure rules that needs to be looked at.

See Schweizer’s full interview on Fox and Friends below.

These explosive allegations gained traction after President Donald Trump tweeted this morning instructing his followers to watch Fox and Friends.

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More recently, Trump slammed the mainstream media for allegedly ignoring the report.

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Left-leaning Politifact confirms Podesta’s ties to the companies Breitbart alleges. However, the outlet states that “there doesn’t appear to be anything illegal” about what Podesta did by not declaring the ties.

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Podesta, Not Trump, Tied To Russian Investment Company

BREAKING: Wall Street Journal Reveals Shock Business Details About Podesta and Russia

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Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta has been linked to an investment firm owned by the Russian government. Moreover, it has been shown that he tried to hide this connection from the U.S. government.

Five years ago, the U.S.-based solar energy startup Joule Unlimited elected Podesta to its board of directors in the hopes that he would help it foster the sorts of international relationships needed for long-term success, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Lo and behold, Podesta did exactly that. Within months of his election to the board, the Russian firm Rusnano announced plans to invest about $35 million in the solar company. Several months later, Joule invited Rusnano’s chairman Anatoly Chubais to join its board of directors.

Note that around this time, Podesta joined then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, seemingly unconcerned about the potential conflicts of interest at play. This attitude changed in 2014, when he signed up to serve as a counselor to President Barack Obama.

Hacked emails published by WikiLeaks last week showed that in 2014, Podesta asked that his shares in Joule be transferred to a newly created entity called Leonidio Holdings, LLC.

Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, a Clinton campaign representative confirmed this finding, but claimed that the entity was owned by Podesta’s children — and that his purpose in transferring his holdings to them was to recuse “himself from all matters pertaining to Joule for the duration of his time at the White House.”

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Here’s the problem: The emails published by WikiLeaks also revealed that Podesta paid the bill for Leonidio’s incorporation in Delaware — and that he also took care of expenses for some legal work performed for Joule in 2005 by a law firm hired by Leonidio.

Furthermore, the legal work involved the appointment of yet another Rusnano official to Joule’s board of directors. Coincidence or conspiracy? Peter Schweizer, author of the best-selling book “Clinton Cash,” claimed conspiracy.

Specifically, he argued that the formation of Leonidio Holdings, LLC, was just a guise meant to hide Podesta’s continued involvement with Joule.

Thanks to contemporary disclosure laws, however, that guise has now been exposed.

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H/T Breitbart