reporter ken vogel has been all over the story and break a new scoop in the "new york times." here is the headline, russian oligarch and allies could benefit from sanctions deal document shows and the document from that headline turns out to be a doozy. here is the leak. when the trump administration announced it was lifting sanctions against a trio of companies controlled by an influential russian oligarch, it cast the move as tough on russia and on the oligarch arguing he had to make painful concessions to get the sanctions clilifted a binding confidential document signed by both sides suggests that the agreement negotiated with the companies may have been less punitive than advertised. quote, the deal contains provisions that free him from hundreds of millions of dollars in debt while leaving him and