Democratic power broker Tony Podesta took a bigger hit. He resigned from the lobbying firm that bore his name after he was tied to the work Manafort and Gates did in Ukraine, and his company soon collapsed.
Like Mercury, the Podesta Group's client was the government in Ukraine, not a nonprofit. The lobbying shop filed an extensive, retroactive disclosure last April revealing dozens of meetings with lawmakers, administration officials and reporters.
"Podesta Group filed public disclosures appropriately and publicly based on the information that the firm had at the time," a spokesperson for Podesta said.