The Podesta Group was hired by a group run by Manafort to do PR work on behalf of a pro-Russian political party in the Ukraine.

What's interesting is that Manafort is accused of using all sorts of chicanery to hide the source of his income while the Podesta group insists they believed they were hired by an apolitical think tank.

I know the kool-aid drinkers see the name Podesta and assume it's all a liberal conspiracy, but there's a non-zero chance that the Podesta group was actually suckered in my Manafort as a part of his scam.