odesta is at the heart of a Russian-government money laundering operation that  financially benefits  Podesta personally and the Clintons through the Clinton Foundation.

To be clear, although I have had some back-channel communications with Wikileaks I had no advance notice about the hacking of Mr. Podesta nor I have I ever received documents or data from Wikileaks.

The charge that I am working for Russian intelligence or any Russian interest is also false. Don't confuse me with John Podesta's brother, Tony Podesta,  who runs the firm that got $180,000 from Uranium One, the Russian government's uranium company to which Hillary Clinton transferred 20 percent of U.S. uranium.