Tony Podesta offered immunity to testify against Paul Manafort

Tony Podesta has been granted immunity by Special Advisor Robert Mueller to testify against Paul Manafort, reports Tucker Carlson of Fox News, citing two anonymous sources

Podesta is the founder of the Podesta group and the brother of John Podesta, who The Podesta Group allegedly worked with Manafort – a former president of Donald Trump's campaign in 2016 – to lobby for Ukrainian interests in the United States without having been properly registered at the time. the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), says Carlson.

Manafort and the group worked on a campaign called the European Center for a Modern Ukraine, reports the Washington Times.

"In other words, for an almost identical crime, the friend of Bill and Hillary could escape and escape completely unscathed while Paul Manafort could rot in prison," he said. Carlson.

Podesta did not register as a FARA foreign agent, said Carlson in a segment last October.

Mueller also offers immunity to five potential witnesses in the upcoming Manafort trial, reported the Washington Examiner

Mueller's team calls for "immunity from use" , which is a limited type of immunity, The publication reported, citing court documents filed Tuesday.

The five people were not charged or identified publicly with the case, prosecutors for the Mueller team said, according to the examiner.

Tony Podesta resigned from his lobbying group in October in response to Mueller's investigation of the company, the report stated that

the firm was reportedly closed at the end of the year. ;last year.

The Special Advocate's Office did not immediately respond for comment.

Manafort is accused of financial crimes related to the lobbying work he's done in Ukraine. The first of its next two trials, in Virginia, is scheduled to begin next week.

Fox News' Samuel Chamberlain contributed to this story.