The $10m payments, revealed in the US indictment, were among the factors that led to the Fifa president Sepp Blatter promising to step down last week.
The journey is just beginning, but early feedback from patients and clinicians working in these new areas is promising.
But he is trading on the financial ignorance of most savers, who at best may pay more tax and end up poorer in later life, and at worst fall prey to all manner of tricksters and fraudsters promising double digit returns on plausible but fictitious investments.
Which is why the question of his imminent departure looms (the hope is he can develop over another season or two back in the OHL), and why his semi-torrid pace to start the season is promising.
Mr Berlusconi shrugged off the protest as he began his speech laying out the priorities of Italy's six-month presidency of the EU, promising to work to improve ties with the US following the Iraq war, and to involve Europe in the search for Middle East peace.
A month later it busily put out a command paper, Action for Roads, which was supposed to detail how that would be spent, promising 52 new schemes, including 221 miles of new motorway lane.
The prime minister also tried to parry the Ukip threat by promising to introduce a UK bill of rights instead of the human rights act that incorporates the European Convention in UK law, and place EU rules on the free movement of labour at the heart of his renegotiation strategy.
68ff8d24-c6e8-45f4-8dbd-c453d458b9c9 If anyone's to blame for the modern-day cult of "personal productivity" – the ceaseless barrage of books and listicles promising tips for keeping your head above water in our hyper-busy era – then it's probably David Allen.
His vulnerability was shown early in the leadership campaign when, faced with a question from the supporter of a rival candidate on a television debate, he found himself promising to give up his beloved Jaguar.
Outsiders will find little to distinguish between the two parties now promising a progressive alternative to the Conservatives.
