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Blacklisted Huawei Paid Tony Podesta $500K To Lobby Biden Admin During
Same Quarter CFO Released

Chinese tech giant Huawei paid Democratic lobbyist and donor Tony
Podesta $500,000 to lobby the White House during the third quarter -
the same period in which the Biden DOJ struck a deal to allow Huawei
CFO Meng Wanzhou to return home from Canada, where she was awaiting
extradition to face criminal charges in the US.

Whether Podesta spirit-cooked up Wanzhou's release is unknown, however
the White House says they had nothing to do with it - and that the
company is still subject to trade restrictions.

"This was a law enforcement matter that was entirely in the Justice
Department’s hands – not a policy matter," a White House official told
CNBC. "As the Justice Department has said, they ‘reached the decision
to offer a deferred prosecution agreement with Ms. Meng independently,
based on the facts and the law, and an assessment of litigation risk."

"President Biden and this administration believe digital
infrastructure equipment made by untrustworthy vendors, like Huawei,
pose a threat to the security of the U.S., our allies, and our
partners. Export controls against Huawei remain in place," the
official continued, adding. "We are engaging with all of our partners
and allies on the risks posed by Huawei and dozens of countries and
carriers have made the decision to exclude Huawei from their 5G
networks. And we expect this trend to continue."

According to the report, Podesta registered to lobby for Huawei in
July - his first official return to lobbying after his firm's 2017
collapse under heavy scrutiny from special counsel Robert Mueller's
Russiagate probe.

    Podesta, according to the third quarter disclosure, targeted only
the White House Office for Huawei last quarter. The disclosure form
says it was for “issues related to telecommunication services and
impacted trade issues.” The White House Office is run by the
president’s chief of staff, who, in this case, is Ron Klain, another
veteran Democratic power player.

    ...

    For years, Huawei has sought to curry favor with American
officials as it faces accusations that it is a threat to American
national security. China’s government is known to exert a great deal
of influence over the nation’s companies, although Huawei has denied
that it would give data to Beijing. -CNBC

Podesta's now-defunct lobbying firm earned hundreds of thousands of
dollars lobbying for Russian-owned mining company Uranium One during
the same period that the Clinton Foundation was receiving millions
from individuals connected to the U1 transaction.

The Podesta Group ended 2015 as Washington DC's third-largest lobbying
firm - with nearly $30 million in revenue from over 100 clients. After
a string of embarrassing news reports, including a failure to
improperly report a $300,000 shipping expense for Tony's art
collection, employees set up a system to prevent Mr. Podesta from
being reimbursed by the company for personal expenditures, according
to the Wall Street Journal.

In 2016, SunTrust bank severed ties with the Podesta Group when they
discovered that they were doing work for a U.S. subsidiary of a
sanctioned Russian bank - presumably Russias Kremlin-owned Sberbank,
which paid the Podesta group $170,000 over a 6 month period through
September 2016 to lobby against 2014 economic sanctions by the Obama
administration.

Then, during the Russiagate investigation, Podesta clients became
spooked as Special Counsel Robert Mueller began closing in on
associate Paul Manafort. The Podesta Group decided (coincidentally) to
retroactively file as a foreign agent for their work with the
Manafort's Pro-Russia Centre for a Modern Ukraine campaign  tied to
former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, shortly before
Manafort's indictment. The Podesta Group made $1.2 million as part of
that effort.

With the Manafort probe red-hot, the unraveling of the Podesta Group
was swift. With clients such as Wells Fargo, Wal Mart and Oracle Corp.
bailing on Tony, the lobbying firm death-spiraled into default - as
Tony refused to pledge his giant art collection against firm
obligations.

That said, like a cat with nine-lives, Tony Podesta has risen from
radioactive recluse to DC power broker once again,. now that his old
friends from the Democratic party running the show.