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Emails give new detail about Mercury, Podesta role in Manafort's lobbying

In the 2017 letter, Hunt told Laurenza that the Justice Department had determined that Manafort and his partner, Rick Gates, should have registered under FARA for their work in Ukraine. She said that determination was based on documents provided by lawyers for two lobbying firms that worked with Manafort, Mercury and the Podesta Group, as well as emails provided by the Podesta Group.

Several of the emails, excerpts of which were included in the letter and which previously had not been made public, raise new questions about why the Podesta Group and Mercury did not initially register with the Justice Department themselves.