Russian oligarch's deal for sanctions relief is sweeter than publicly portrayed, document suggests

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN

A Russian oligarch allied with Vladi­mir Putin will, along with close associates, maintain majority control of a major energy company from which the Treasury Department is lifting sanctions despite the Trump administration’s vow to hold him accountable as a key beneficiary of Moscow’s “malign activity” worldwide.

Oleg Deripaska, along with his ex-wife, ex-father-in-law and a foundation Deripaska launched years ago, will together maintain well over 50 percent of the shares in En+ Group, the most influential of three companies from which the Treasury Department is lifting sanctions, according to an agreement outlining the deal’s terms, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post on Tuesday.

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The New York Times first reported on aspects of the agreement, which appears to show that Deripaska is being treated more generously than the Trump administration has acknowledged publicly.

The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russian-oligarch%E2%80%99s-deal-for-sanctions-relief-is-sweeter-than-publicly-portrayed-document-suggests/ar-BBSC1Ct?li=BBnb7Kz

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Didn't Bernie skip the narrow Senate vote to block this deal?

[AZ8theist]

1. OF COURSE it's better than reported..

When the traitor occupying the WH is a fucking Russian ASSET, did anybody expect anything less??

We are watching the destruction of the American way of life right before our eyes.

Carried out by a fucking imbecile.

Owned by Putin. Disgusting.

[blue-wave]

2. Yes,

our country is presently run by an evil cabal of traitors. Tar and feathers for them all should be the way we start.

[UpInArms]

3. Quid pro quo

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-gotten-deal-donald-trump-quid-pro-quo-agreement-former-1300362?amp=1

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is using flawed arguments to defend the president, because a quid-pro-quo arrangement with Russia could be characterized as a bribe if it took place after Trump took office, former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah argued Monday.

“Giuliani seems to have this idea that collusion, as defined in the Mueller probe and what the heart of this investigation is, is only about what happened during the campaign and the election. And as long as they didn’t collude and make a specific agreement ahead of time, Trump would get his Trump Tower and Putin would get relief from sanctions. As long as they didn’t do that during the election, it’s OK,” Rocah, a former prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, told MSNBC during a television interview.

Trump's critics have accused him of pursuing policy positions beneficial to Russia since taking office. The president has weakened the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by repeatedly casting doubt on its value. Trump’s Treasury Department recently (sic) [missing the word “lifted”] sanctions on the companies of Kremlin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a move some characterized as a gift to Putin. Trump also chose not to impose fresh sanctions against Russia for supporting the Syrian government in the wake of a chemical weapons attack last April.

Rocah noted that Russia has gotten its end of the deal already if there was a quid pro quo arrangement.

Reports recently revealed that the FBI had looked into the possibility that Trump was a Russian asset.

.... more at link above....

[Firestorm49]

4. Regardless of what we read, there's always more than meets the eye.