Lobbying Spending Database-Podesta Group, 2016 | OpenSecrets

"John Podesta, founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, is listed as a key lobbyist on behalf of Sberbank, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms. His firm received more than $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics."

Sberbank is a Russian firm associated with Putin. So who again had ties to the Russians? john podesta and hillary clinton who helped broker a deal to sell uranium production in the Unites states to a Russia company associated with Vladamir Putin.