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The Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department on Aug. 17 related to work the firm completed between 2012 and 2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank.

Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well.

The real news in the indictment of Paul Manafort on charges of laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent is that someone has actually been prosecuted under a foreign lobbying law that has existed for decades but has almost never been enforced. The indictment may or may not prove that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, but it has already proved how flawed the foreign lobbying rules have always been and how easily they are flouted.

So in a nutshell...

• The historical relevance to not disclosing this information and not filling out the proper paperwork has almost always led (in the past) to the party in question retroactively (belatedly) filing the forms. By all sources, only one time (since 1938) has this law been successfully prosecuted.
• Both the Podesta group and the Manafort Group apparently had not filed this paperwork during their years working in Ukraine. 
• The Democratic lobbying firms working with the Manafort group have been allowed (just within the past three months) retroactively file disclosures of their business dealings and are not facing any criminal prosecution. Meanwhile the Manafort group is being charged with conspiracy to commit fraud against the United States.