NEW DOCUMENT: In 2016 & 2017, MANAFORT & GATES fought @TheJusticeDept to avoid disclosure of their lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainian interests by claiming they didn't have a contract with a pro-YANUKOVYCH nonprofit & had deleted emails related to the work documentcloud.org/documents/4878…
NOTABLE: The lawyer who represented MANAFORT & GATES in their fight with @TheJusticeDepartment, Melissa Laurenza of @Akin_Gump, later fought MUELLER's efforts to compel her to testify against Manafort. Mueller continues pushing for access to her emails with Manafort.
This letter is part of a tranche of documents obtained via a lawsuit brought by @NYTimes & @MFIAclinic against @TheJusticeDept under #FOIA. Taken together, they provide tantalizing hints about the extent of MANAFORT & GATES's unregistered foreign lobbying. documentcloud.org/documents/4878…
MANAFORT says he didn't lobby.
BUT in 2012, he emailed the US Ambassador to Ukraine, complaining that YANUKOVYCH was being disrespected: “The @StateDept statement on the election is an insult to the people of Ukraine & those … working so hard to bring democracy to Ukraine."
NEW DOCUMENTS: @TheJusticeDept started asking MANAFORT to explain why he didn't disclose his pro-Russian Ukrainian work under FARA back in Sept. 2016. Instead of FARA registering, Manafort & Gates lied to DOJ about their work, according to MUELLER. documentcloud.org/documents/4878…
In response to my #FOIA for FARA records related to MANAFORT, GATES, @PodestaGroup, Mercury, @SkaddenArps , etc, @TheJusticeDept found 1,810 emails & 1 DVD of documents.
BUT it only released a few dozen pages, withholding the rest under an exemption for law enforcement records.
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