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In exchange for lavishing billions of dollars upon MLB teams over the last couple of decades, local television providers demanded exclusivity.

I’m grateful to East West Players not only for the enormous care lavished on the staging, but also for the boldness of its approach.

The vice-president, who himself has been convicted of corruption in France and has had lavish assets seized in various countries, wants to be seen as the man cracking down on graft and wrong-doing at home.

He acknowledged that he had enjoyed a lavish lifestyle afforded by his crimes.

Mr Sutherland stood down from his role at the watchdog last year within hours of a separate Audit Scotland report which detailed lavish spending at the public body.