Sunfish
Your thoughts are noted, as is the possibility that everything is now ok.
Whilst vengeance may be a temporary pleasure, it is not the answer or the solution.
The TLFO has consistently demonstrated personality traits that are incompatible
with holding a responsible position in a government entity.
Do you think for one moment that telling him he has been misbehaving
and that he must now behave will work. No it won't unless he undergoes hypnotic or other therapies.
I doubt that even the "Men in Black" 's neuralizer would effect the personality change needed.
The misconduct has not ceased, there are FOI's still under fear of reprisal,
despite the fact that the new AM is a genuine bloke with an "open door" policy.
The cancer must be removed and the wound must be sterilized to fix this problem.
If anything, the TLFO will now become more cunning and devious, particularly since he's been,
as you possibly suggest, told to smarten up and behave.