Anthony Thomas Podesta was born on October 24,1943 and is an American lobbyist best known for founding the Podesta Group.
14 Facts About Tony Podesta
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The brother of former White House Chief of staff John Tony Podesta, he was formerly one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists and fundraisers.
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In 2021, Tony Podesta was reportedly hired by Huawei as a lobbyist and consultant.
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Tony Podesta was born in Chicago, where he was raised, with his Greek-American mother Mary, first-generation Italian American immigrant father John Sr.
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Tony Podesta studied political science both in college, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and in graduate school at MIT.
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Tony Podesta was married to congressional staffer and lobbyist Heather Miller Podesta from 2003 to 2014.
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In 1981, Tony Podesta became a founding president of People for the American Way, a secular liberal group started by television producer Norman Lear.
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Tony Podesta's lobbying firm, the Tony Podesta Group, had more than $40 million in annual revenue at its peak at the time of the Obama administration.
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Tony Podesta has lobbied for a variety of groups, including Bank of America, BP, and Egypt.
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In 2016, Tony Podesta was on the board of a Vietnamese casino company run by an American businessman who had been barred from the securities industry in United States for defrauding customers.
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In 2017, Tony Podesta came under scrutiny for failing to disclose the extent of his political work for a Ukrainian group tied to both adviser Paul Manafort and to the pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2012.
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On October 23,2017, Tony Podesta was reportedly facing criminal inquiry in Robert Mueller's investigation regarding this lobbying campaign which ran between 2012 and 2014.
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On October 30,2017, Tony Podesta announced that he would leave the Podesta Group.
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On July 31,2018, it was reported that Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta was referred by special counsel Robert Mueller to federal prosecutors for investigation in New York.