Dot connectors, Twitter diagram creators and newly minted Russia-conspiracy sleuths from sea to shining sea take note. Since anything connected to Russia is now considered treasonous, I’ve got a great story for you to sniff out. It relates to John Podesta, but somehow I doubt you’ll be interested in this one…
*Note: The Daily Caller has since added a correction to its post. This is the correction
Editor’s Note: This story was corrected on 3/30/2017 to show that Mr. Podesta was not required to file Schedule B to OGE Form 278, since he was a “new entrant” at the time he certified the form.
The Daily Caller reports:
John Podesta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national campaign chairman, may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
Joule Unlimited Technologies — financed in part by a Russian firm — originally awarded Podesta 100,000 shares of stock options when in 2010 he joined that board along with its Dutch-based entities: Joule Global Holdings, BV and the Stichting Joule Global Foundation.
When Podesta announced his departure from the Joule board in January 2014 to become President Obama’s special counsellor, the company officially issued him 75,000 common shares of stock.
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