Ha! Things are getting messy. Let’s see who else (cough cough) besides Manafort goes down for something every opportunist who had a connection to an Obama admin member (like Biden snd Kerry) had their sticky fingers poking and pawing. Everyone wanted to cash in on the collapse of the Ukrainian government.

Exclusive: Mueller refers foreign agent inquiries to New York prosecutors
By Erica Orden, CNN
Updated 6:01 AM ET, Wed August 1, 2018

CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has referred a collection of cases to New York federal prosecutors concerning whether several high-profile American lobbyists and operatives failed to register their work as foreign agents, according to people familiar with the matter.

The transfer of the inquiries marks an escalation of Mueller's referrals to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in the period since he turned over a case involving President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

Since the spring, Mueller has referred matters to SDNY involving longtime Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and his work for his former firm, the Podesta Group, and former Minnesota Republican Rep. Vin Weber and his work for Mercury Public Affairs, the sources said.

One source said that former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, a former partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, is also part of the inquiry.

None of the entities involved have been charged with wrongdoing, and there is no indication the SDNY inquiry will result in criminal charges

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The Podesta Group has said it was fully cooperating with the special counsel's office and said it didn't register as a foreign agent for its ECFMU work because that group had misrepresented itself. The Podesta Group said it registered its work for ECFMU instead with Congress, based on what it said was faulty information the non-profit had provided and an outside legal opinion on the matter. The ECFMU had given the firm a statement attesting that it wasn't an arm of a foreign government, the Podesta Group said.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/31/politics/mueller-investigation-foreign-ag...

EX-OBAMA LAWYER WHO WORKED WITH MANAFORT ON UKRAINE PROJECT ABRUPTLY LEAVES LAW FIRM
Chuck Ross | Reporter. 04:25 PM 04/24/2018

Greg Craig, the White House counsel for President Barack Obama, abruptly left his law firm as it has come under scrutiny from the special counsel’s investigation.

A spokeswoman for Skadden Arps confirmed to The Daily Caller News Foundation that Craig is no longer with the firm. She did not address whether his departure is related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

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Skadden Arps has come under scrutiny because of its work with Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, on behalf of the Ukrainian government in 2012. A team led by Craig helped produce a report that sought to justify the imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko, a political rival of Viktor Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president at the time and an ally of Vladimir Putin’s.

It is not clear whether Craig is in any legal jeopardy. But The New York Times reported in February that Craig was directly involved in promoting the Tymoshenko report to reporters and members of Congress. Neither Craig nor Skadden Arps registered as foreign agents for the work.

Another former Skadden lawyer, Alex van der Zwaan, has pleaded guilty to Mueller’s prosecutors for lying about his contacts with Rick Gates, a former Manafort business partner, and a Ukrainian consultant with links to Russia’s spy agencies.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/24/obama-lawyer-mueller-manafort/