EXCLUSIVE: Podesta Was Board Member Of Firms Linked To Russian InvestorsRep. Louie Gohmert, an outspoken House Republican from Texas, is calling for a congressional investigation of John Podesta’s role with Rusnano, a state-run company founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.
Podesta — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman and former President Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff —
first made contact with the Russian firm in 2011, when he joined the boards and executive committees of
three related entities: Boston-based Joule Unlimited; Rotterdam-based Joule Global Holdings; Joule Global Stichting, the company’s controlling interest. All are high-tech renewable energy enterprises.
Three months after Podesta’s arrival, Joule Unlimited
accepted a 1 billion ruble investment from Rusnano, amounting to $35 million in U.S. currency. The firm also awarded a Joule board seat in February 2012 to Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano’s CEO, who has been depicted as a corrupt figure.
One potential legal problem for him relates to the time he joined former President Barack Obama’s White House staff in 2014 as a senior counselor and failed to reveal his 2011 Joule stock vesting agreement in his government financial disclosure form.
Further, he
failed to disclose 75,000 common shares of Joule stock he received, as disclosed in a WikiLeaks email.
The Podesta-Russia connection also could rekindle a new round of questions about
Clinton relationships with foreign figures — in this case, Chubais.
Chubais,
Russia’s deputy prime minister in the 1990s, owed his personal fortunes to Bill Clinton, who embraced him as a “reformer” in former President Boris Yeltsin’s government. Clinton’s ally instead created a new generation of tycoons who today rule Russia.
Podesta’s role at Joule was largely unknown until last year when the nonprofit Government Accountability Institute (GAI) published a
highly-detailed report on Russian ties to Podesta and the Clintons.
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