His lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, a Washington icon of power and political influence, notified its employees recently that the enterprise is shutting its doors. Mueller’s team alleged that the men hired the Podesta Group and Mercury to lobby for the Ukrainians in the United States. She announced that she was off to start her own firm, Cogent Strategies, which includes many former Podesta Group employees. He has tremendous affection, respect and admiration for her and hopes that she and her team of former Podesta Group colleagues will build a firm that is even more successful than the Podesta Group,” Podesta spokeswoman Molly Levinson said. ), asked whether — were it not for Mueller’s probe — the allegations against Manafort, Gates and the firms with which they did business would have stayed secret.

Source: Washington Post November 24, 2017 22:07 UTC