Esther Rantzen, a celebrity candidate running in a seat whose previous incumbent had been among the most egregious expense-fiddlers, won a humiliatingly small number of votes.But results varied hugely across the country.
One potential explanation is that the MPs exposed as having made the most egregious expenses claims anticipated electoral punishment and therefore declined to re-stand for election at the 2010 general election.
Health scandals in hospitals, police violence as at the G20 protests, and the more egregious MPs' expense claims are rarely seen by the public as receiving the penalty deserved.
Would he find similar blame — this time in the culture of the well housed and well off — for Britain's recent tabloid phone hacking scandals or the egregious abuse of expense accounts by members of Parliament?
In his report, "Parked: How Congress Misplaced Priorities Are Trashingg Our National Treasures," he blasted Isle Royale and other remote national parks, like the Upper Peninsula's Keweenaw National Historic Park, as some of the "more egregious, wasteful or otherwise questionable expenses" to be found in America.
For an egregious example of an indefensibly high expense ratio, consider the State Farm S&P 500 Index B (SNPBX).
In a 2010 ruling, David Houston III, a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Aberdeen, Miss., ordered American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. to pay borrower Glen Cothern's legal expenses due to its "egregious" conduct.
Officers worked with the courts to issue egregious fines and fees to boost city revenue, at the expense of individuals who could not afford to pay them and were subsequently thrown in jail.
In perhaps the most egregious example cited in the lawsuit under the heading "fraudulent expenses," Wesleyan said that Mr. Kannam traveled to Britain with his wife and children in 2006 to interview for a position at Cambridge University.
Here are three of the most egregious practices that I have seen software trade associations use consistently, at the expense of businesses across the country.
