That shocking charge resurfaced in the latest investigation, when a BBC reporter, Adam Littler, went to work briefly at Amazon's Swansea warehouse.
In the glare of public scrutiny, juries in Brooklyn and the Bronx started deliberations on separate cases last week, considering the same shocking charge — the murder of a police officer.
Her grandson Philip Marshall had filed court papers making the shocking charge that Anthony Marshall — his father, and Mrs. Astor's only child — was "intentionally and repeatedly ignoring" his ailing grandmother's "health, safety, personal and household needs, while enriching himself with millions of dollars".
Apart from the abductions, especially shocking is the charge that a drug gang in effect ran Iguala, putting in two of its own a mayor and his wife who used local police to settle their scores violently with little fear of being caught.
Talk of a crisis at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's shocking arrest on rape charges is overdone.
"Baby Marchella might be alive today," Mr. Hynes said, "had these A.C.S. workers attended to her case with the basic levels of care it deserved, or had her grandmother stepped in and put a stop to the shocking abuse she is charged with facilitating".
But Conservatives have described the estimated cost of £650,00 to implement the scheme as "shocking" and called the charge a "bin tax".
All have gone on to raise substantial rounds of follow-on financing, though Vungle had a rocky 2017, after its cofounding CEO was arrested and charged with shocking abuses that police officials believe may have taken place while he was under the influence of LSD.
But what is charged remains shocking, not only for the outrageousness of the abuses described, but also because all of the conduct is alleged to have occurred not in some distant past, such as the previous decade, when for-profit colleges, freed of meaningful oversight, brazenly engaged in a torrent of waste, fraud, and abuses with taxpayer dollars and students' lives.
