"Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who made an unsuccessful run for California governor earlier this year, is joining a Washington consulting firm. Villaraigosa, a Democrat, told POLITICO he will be a co-chairman of Mercury, which lobbies for clients from Hyundai to the governments of Qatar and Turkey."
"Villaraigosa is Mercury’s highest-profile hire since the firm was caught up last year in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mercury was one of two Washington lobbying firms hired by Paul Manafort and Rick Gates in 2012 to lobby on behalf of a European think tank, which Mueller has since alleged was controlled by the Ukrainian president and his political party."
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