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 * Keep In addition to the New York Time article that Mark Arsten found, the same newspaper profiled him and his brother John here in 2000, saying that "Tony Podesta is a facilitator, a broker, a translator, who helps businesses understand the ways of Washington." The Boston Globe called him a "highly successful lobbyist" here in 2000. The Washington Post called him and his wife "superlobbyists" and owners of a "large, eye-popping modern-art collection" in an article about their donation of an iconic portrait of Barack Obama to the National Portrait Gallery here in 2009. There's a biographical sketch of him on pages 158-159 of Lobbying in America: A Reference Handbook.  Tony Podesta has been a notable Democratic Party activist and lobbyist for 40 years.