anything is possible but it doesn't make me raise the odds of a sale it could just as likely -- I think more likely? -- be a statement of longer-term commitment from the Joe Lewis Family Trust (a legal entity wholly separate from the white collar criminal Joe Lewis)

one of the stumbling blocks to a sale, and even investment, was levy’s insistence upon staying on. perhaps not being able to secure this outside investment for so long made it necessary for the lfs to push levy out.

Maybe Paratici is actually the Paratici Family Trust now too…

In context Don Fabio coming back either feels like a final fuck you to the board or using his last juice to give his mate a job.

That’s the thing he never came back. He’s still a consultant and never got the big job.

Vinai is in charge now and we just have no idea whatsoever what he was doing this summer or what he wants to do in the future it's kind of impossible to read tea leaves on the summer without any insight into Vinai's situation and opinion

True. Hopefully the answer is that he had no real pull yet and it's a fresh start.

my guess is that he was mostly learning and observing and putting together plans for what do when he's in charge but I have no idea at all, it could have been anything would be nice to get some reporting on this

The only decision he has publicly been involved in was Frank, who has also been sort of publicly touted as part of the new order

Still needs to be disinfected from the club.