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The downfall of The Podesta Group

By Emily Jashinsky

Published November 13, 2017 6:34pm ET

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The downfall of The Podesta Group — A host of sources speaking to media have offered accounts that suggest the Podesta Group should have known to file a FARA registration at the time of its work for the ECMU. (Wikipedia Commons)

One of Washington’s most powerful lobbying shops now appears to be an unexpected casualty of the special counsel investigation.

The Podesta Group, a longtime K Street fixture run for decades by Tony Podesta, will reportedly shut down by year’s end as the firm’s involvement in a lobbying campaign on behalf of pro-Russia forces in the Ukrainian government has fallen under scrutiny from both the press and Robert Mueller.

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