A prominent Washington lobbying firm has hired investigators to determine whether it was improperly working with pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians who also employed Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The Podesta Group said Friday that it had hired a law firm to examine its relationship with a not-for-profit European organization that also hired Manafort and was linked to the ousted Ukrainian regime. It said lawyers would look into whether it had been “misled” by the group, called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.
“We will take whatever measures are necessary to address this situation,” the Podesta Group …read more
Source: Voice of America
