wasnt this done 'after' the fact, Obama holdovers let them register because he forgot to
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lobbying-firm-shuttered-tony-podestas-fate-mueller-probe/story?id=55298024
>The Podesta Group’s 28-page closing foreign-agent registration filing - made three months late due to a "computer error,” a spokesman said – marks the firm’s termination of work for foreign clients including Iraq, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia, and suggests an end to Podesta’s 31-year run at the intersection of politics and influence in Washington.