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词条 Tony Podesta
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  1. Life and career

      Early campaigns    Career in lobbyism and activism  

  2. Investigation

      Timeline of events  

  3. References

  4. External lists

{{Infobox person
| name = Tony Podesta
| image = Tony Podesta 2009.jpg
| caption = Podesta in 2009
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|10|24|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| residence = Washington, D.C.
| alma_mater = University of Illinois, Chicago {{small|(BA)}}
M.I.T. {{small|(MA)}}
Georgetown University {{small|(JD)}}
| occupation = Lobbyist
| known_for = Co-founded the Podesta Group
| spouse = Heather Podesta
(m. 2003; div. 2014)
| website = Tony Podesta bio at the Podesta Group website
}}Anthony Thomas Podesta[1] (born October 24, 1943) is an American lobbyist best known for founding the Podesta Group.[2] He used to be one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists and fundraisers.[3][4][5]

Podesta and the Podesta Group are reportedly under federal investigation regarding compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act for their work for a Ukrainian group tied to the pro-Russian former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych beginning in 2012.[6][7]

Life and career

Podesta was born in Chicago, where he was raised, with his Greek-American mother Mary, first-generation Italian immigrant father John Sr., and his brother John Podesta Jr.[8] His father was a factory worker.[8] He studied political science both in college, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and in graduate school at MIT. He attended law school at Georgetown.[8]

He was married to congressional staffer and lobbyist Heather Miller Podesta during the period 2003–2014.[8]

Early campaigns

While studying at MIT in 1968, Podesta left school to work on the presidential campaign of Senator Eugene McCarthy, for whom he did field work and ran the scheduling advance operation in California and other states.[9] After McCarthy lost the Democratic nomination to Hubert Humphrey, Podesta organized students on behalf of the Humphrey-Muskie campaign.[9]

McCarthy was the first of several losing Democrat politicians that Podesta campaigned for. Others included Joe Duffy for the Senate in Connecticut in 1970,[8] Ed Muskie and then George McGovern for president in 1972, Ted Kennedy in 1980, Walter Mondale's presidential campaign in 1984, and Michael Dukakis in 1988, the same year the Podesta brothers founded their lobbying firm.[10]

Career in lobbyism and activism

In 1981, Tony Podesta became a founding president of People for the American Way, a liberal group started by television producer Norman Lear. He led the group until 1987.

Podesta's lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, had more than $40 million in annual revenue at its peak at the time of the Obama administration.[8]

In 1988 Tony and John Podesta founded Podesta Associates, which became PodestaMattoon when Republican Daniel Mattoon joined the team in 2001. The name was again changed to the Podesta Group when Mattoon left in 2006.[11]

By 2015, the Podesta Group was the third largest in Washington D.C. with revenue of approximately $30 million.[8] Clients of the firm have included Google, Wells Fargo, General Electric, Boeing and the Washington trade group for the U.S. drug industry.[8] The firm had a number of foreign governments as clients, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Iraq and the government of South Sudan.[8] According to The Wall Street Journal, Podesta's lobbying firm performed well in 2015, because clients believed that he had access to a future Hillary Clinton administration.[8] In the 2016 presidential election, he raised money for Clinton.[8] Fundraising records show that over the course of a decade Podesta and his wife Heather donated more to the Democratic Party and its candidates than any other lobbyists.[8]

Podesta has lobbied for a variety of groups, including Bank of America, BP,[2] and Egypt.[12] More recently, he has worked for Pennsylvania Democratic representatives Joe Sestak, Chris Carney, and Patrick Murphy, and chaired former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's reelection campaign.[13] In 2016, Podesta was on the board of a Vietnamese casino company run by an American businessman who had been barred from the securities industry in United States for defrauding customers.[14] The casino company sought to get the Vietnamese government to deregulate the gambling sector.[14]

Investigation

In 2017, Tony Podesta came under scrutiny for failing to disclose the extent of his political work for a Ukrainian group tied to both adviser Paul Manafort and to the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2012.[15][30][31]

Timeline of events

In April 2017, the Podesta Group retroactively filed new lobbying reports with the Justice Department that revealed more about its work for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), a center founded by three senior members of the pro-Russia Party of Regions.[16][17][15]

On October 23, 2017, Tony Podesta was reportedly facing criminal inquiry in Robert Mueller's investigation regarding this lobbying campaign which ran between 2012 and 2014.[18][19][20]

On October 30, 2017, Tony Podesta announced that he would leave the Podesta Group.[21][22]

On July 31, 2018, it was reported that Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta was referred by special counsel Robert Mueller to federal prosecutors for investigation in New York.[23][24]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://pipl.com/search/?t=YTU4YzVkNWMzYmZiZGNhZTY2MzNmMDBhOTZiNTA3ZDdmNWIzZDUxMWMxOTc0ZGVl&in=8&q=Anthony+Podesta&l=Washington%2C+United+States&sloc=US%7CWA%7CNone&avatar=avatar-7|title=pipl.com: Anthony Thomas Podesta|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
2. ^1 {{cite news|title=Lobbyist Says It’s Not About Influence|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/us/02podesta.html |accessdate=October 9, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 1, 2010}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/4264.html|title=Hired Guns: The City's 50 Top Lobbyists|date=1 June 2007|work=The Washingtonian|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818104615/http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/4264.html|archivedate=18 August 2007}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-01-14/the-uber-lobbyists-of-washington|title=The Uber Lobbyists of Washington|year=2009|work=Bloomberg Businessweek}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/185843-top-lobbyists-hired-guns|title=Top Lobbyists: Hired Guns|year=2011|work=The Hill}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mueller-now-investigating-democratic-lobbyist-tony-podesta-n812776|title=Mueller now investigating Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta|work=NBC News|access-date=2017-10-30|language=en}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/podesta-group-shutting-down-mueller-russia-2017-11|title=A top Democratic lobbying firm caught up in Mueller's Russia probe is on the verge of shutting down|last=Sheth|first=Sonam|date=2017-11-12|work=Business Insider|access-date=2017-11-19|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}
8. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-tony-podesta-a-washington-power-broker-lost-it-all-1524065781|title=How Tony Podesta, a Washington Power Broker, Lost It All|last=Mullins|first=Brody|date=2018-04-18|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2018-04-18|last2=Bykowicz|first2=Julie|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}
9. ^1 {{cite web|author=Don Nicoll|title=Interview with Anthony "Tony" Podesta|publisher =Bates College|date =Sep 2002|url = http://digilib.bates.edu/collect/muskieor/index/assoc/HASHacdd.dir/doc.pdf }}
10. ^{{cite web|author= Rachel Van Dongen|title=Profile – Tony Podesta|publisher =Washington Post|date =Nov 2009|url = http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Tony_Podesta}}
11. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103271.html|title=PodestaMattoon By Any Other Name...|last=Sarasohn|first=Judy|date=2 November 2006|newspaper=Washington Post}}
12. ^{{cite news|url=http://politics.salon.com/2011/01/28/egypt_in_washington/singleton/|title=Who’s doing Mubarak’s bidding in Washington?|date=January 28, 2011|newspaper=Salon.com|accessdate=October 9, 2011}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/podesta.html|title=Do YOU Know Tony Podesta?|author=Sara Miles|date=Dec 1999|publisher=Wired}}
14. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-vietnam-casino|title=The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trump’s Contact with Vietnam — "Trump, Inc." Podcast — ProPublica|date=2018-04-25|website=ProPublica|language=en-us|others=Justin Elliott|access-date=2018-04-25}}
15. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/357884-podesta-group-is-one-of-the-companies-mentioned-in-manafort|title=Podesta Group one of the companies mentioned in Manafort indictment: report|last=Beavers|first=Olivia|date=2017-10-30|work=The Hill|access-date=2018-08-01|last2=Wilson|first2=Megan R.|language=en}}
16. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/podesta-manafort-lobbying/index.html|title=Podesta lobby group did not disclose extent of work for Ukrainian campaign advised by Paul Manafort|last=Investigates|first=Thomas Frank, CNN|work=CNN|access-date=2017-10-30}}
17. ^1 {{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/paul-manafort-lobbying-ukraine-podesta-group-237163|title=Podesta Group files new disclosures in Manafort-linked Ukraine lobbying|work=POLITICO|access-date=2017-10-30}}
18. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/23/16520242/tony-podesta-mueller-investigation|title=Tony Podesta is stepping down from his lobbying firm, after scrutiny from Mueller investigation|last=Prokop|first=Andrew|date=2017-10-30|work=Vox|access-date=2018-08-01}}
19. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/tony-podesta-robert-mueller-trump-russia-690513|title=Robert Mueller’s probe is now looking into a Democratic lobbyist|date=2017-10-23|work=Newsweek|access-date=2017-10-30|language=en}}
20. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mueller-now-investigating-democratic-lobbyist-tony-podesta-n812776|title=Mueller now investigating Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta|work=NBC News|access-date=2017-11-01|language=en}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/tony-podesta-stepping-down-from-lobbying-giant-amid-mueller-probe-244314|title=Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe|last=Palmer|first=Anna|work=Politico|accessdate=October 30, 2017}}
22. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/11/15/563842445/drain-the-swamp-hardly-washington-appears-more-stuck-in-the-muck-than-ever|title='Drain The Swamp'? Hardly. Washington Appears More Stuck In The Muck Than Ever|last=Overby|first=Peter|date=2017-11-15|work=NPR|access-date=2018-08-01|language=en}}
23. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/7/31/17637426/robert-mueller-ukraine-lobbyists-tony-podesta-vin-weber-greg-craig|title=Report: Robert Mueller referred lobbyists, including Tony Podesta, to Manhattan prosecutors|last=Kirby|first=Jen|date=2018-07-31|work=Vox|access-date=2018-08-01}}
24. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/tony-podesta-under-investigation-following-special-counsel-referral.html|title=Federal prosecutors said to be investigating lobbyist Tony Podesta after special counsel referral|last=Wang|first=Christine|date=2018-07-31|work=CNBC|access-date=2018-08-01}}

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