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FD-302a (Rev. 05-08-10) b6 b7C UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO b7E Interview of 09/13/2017 On .Pagc 4 of 10 Tymoshenko issue was problematic. The firm would be expected to lobby that Tymoshenko had been properly imprisoned. b6 b7C Second Meeting b6 did not know the specific date of this meeting but b7C knew that it occurred before July 4, 20l2 and that it was held in the firm's conference room. There were a lot of people in attendance at this meeting.. b6 MANAFORT did not b7C attend this meeting. The second meeting was a reprise of the first. GAtes informed the attendants that the client would be an Ngo in Brussels that was being set up. GATes explained they had looked into it and had decided that the Ngo would be the client. GAtes told the Podesta Group that their client would time the Podesta Group had heard that an Ngo would be set up.. explained that anyone who did foreign work needed to file under b6 FARA except under certain circumstances when the lobbyist can elect to b7C file an LDA. Registering for FARA is complicated due to reporting requirements, registration requirements, contractual regulations, and because FARA filers are required to report every contact for both government relations and public relations work. Under LDA, the. requirements are less stringent and public relations is exempt from any reporting. Furthermore, clients are often upset when their contact with the lobbying firm is reported to the us government. was aware that FArA violations were criminal. b6 b7C Because of the compensation structure of the firm, the originator of the client always wanted to close the client. b6 b7C For most clients, the normal course of business would have been to have a proposal writer sit in on a meeting and take detailed notes so that they could later draft a detailed proposal to send the client.. b6 b7C UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO FBI(19cv1278)-5705