Under the SEC's nose, he undertook some of the most egregious book-keeping ever seen.
International Paper was especially egregious: It booked a five-year total of $1.04 billion in earnings but would have reported only $409 million by using Ciesielski's method.
In the single most egregious departure from the book, the judge at Fagin's trial (Mr. Brydon, badly used) tells him that he can avoid the gallows by declaring his allegiance to Christ, a device that grants him outright martyrdom.
Moore lists several of the more egregious examples from the book: "the 'Anti-Greed Act' to redistribute income (sounds like Charlie Rangel's promises soak-the-rich tax bill) and the 'Equalization of Opportunity Act' to prevent people from starting more than one business (to give other people a chance).
Even the book's most egregious philistine, a man born without "the aesthetic gene," who cares so little about art that "he can honestly say he doesn't even know what he likes," is obsessed with turning his late sister's art-filled house into a museum.
I don't know about egregious, but there's a book I loved called "When the Shooting Stops. . . the Cutting Begins," by Ralph Rosenblum, that any fan of the early Woody Allen would like, and that nobody seems to know about.
The defense and some legal observers argued that was inappropriate for security types working in a Middle Eastern war zone, but Federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth apparently decided the crime was egregious enough to throw the book at them.
Such a Brandis word: egregious.
Updated at 6.37pm BST 6.36pm BST Arda Turan has just been booked for an egregious dive in the Malaga area.
But this book is not as egregious as many critics have suggested, on both sides of the Atlantic.
The most egregious offense may be the "Unshelved" book category — including beleaguered titles like "A Clockwork Orange" — that are kept out of sight lest they plant ideas in impressionable minds.
