It looks like Tony Podesta's departure may already be improving K Street

Less than one week after news reports indicated he was under a federal criminal investigation, Washington super-lobbyist and Democratic bundler Tony Podesta stepped down from his powerful eponymous firm, a longtime fixture in the K Street community.

In fact, news of Podesta’s resignation came only hours after special counsel Robert Mueller made public his indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, a document that implicates the Podesta Group in an alleged campaign orchestrated by Manafort to solicit lobbyists for work on behalf of foreign principals in the Ukraine without properly disclosing their efforts to the Justice Department.