Democratic Scandal Recap: Lobbyist Ties With Oligarchs and Perez's Email
At the Justice Department, the new head the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, left, frequently used his personal email account for agency business. And the media’s focus on Trump-Russian connections overlooks the more extensive relationships of top Democrats with Kremlin-associated oligarchs and companies.
From the Washington Free Beacon:
Congressional investigators found that Perez used his personal email account to conduct DOJ business 1,200 times since 2009, and the department conceded in a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that Perez had committed at least 34 violations of the Federal Records Act.
Read the article here.
From Forbes:
Thanks to the Panama Papers, we know that the Podesta Group (founded by John Podesta’s brother, Tony) lobbied for Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank. “Sberbank is the Kremlin, they don’t do anything major without Putin’s go-ahead, and they don’t tell him ‘no’ either,” explained a retired senior U.S. intelligence official. ... That’s not all: The busy Podesta Group also represented Uranium One, a uranium company acquired by the Russian government which received approval from Hillary Clinton’s State Department to mine for uranium in the U.S. and gave Russia twenty percent control of US uranium.
Read the article here.
