The court called his conduct egregious and evidence of a "complete disregard for the rules governing attorneys".
Relatively few of the financial crisis cases, including the big mortgage fraud cases settled by Citigroup, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, would seem to meet those criteria, because the purported misconduct wasn't that egregious, the evidence in some cases was ambiguous and the victims were limited to a few sophisticated financial institutions rather than large numbers of the investing public.
To many, this seemed a less than credible result, and video evidence of egregious voting violations circulated on the Web.
This information will not be shared with the enforcement authorities "unless there is evidence of egregious violations of criminal statutes or widespread abuses," the guidelines say.
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And victims' advocates said the oversight was egregious, in part because evidence kits come with printed instructions, and in part because the samples often become the most important part of the examination.
That statement, while technically accurate, is such an egregious distortion of the evidence that one can only hope it is an interim statement, as some staff members suggest, not a final surrender.
The feeling is that if the SEC actually brings charges, it will expose more evidence of egregious market manipulation and bring more class-action cases by average investors.
That's right: The industry's response to years of evidence of egregious, and often criminal, animal cruelty and of diseased and adulterated meat entering the market is to attempt to outlaw undercover investigations.
In these outbreaks, epidemiologic findings supporting hemodialysis-associated HIV transmission were linked with directly observed or reliably reported evidence of egregious breaks in IPC practices.
