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The attorney general’s office called Sable’s evasion of regulatory oversight “egregious,” warranting “substantial penalties.”

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“The profit margin doesn’t need to be egregious,” he said.

He said that if the allegations against the car firms are upheld in court it "would demonstrate one of the most egregious breaches of corporate trust in modern times".

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Sending them to the Colorado prison, she said, “will ensure that they spend the remainder of their lives in conditions consistent with the egregious crimes they committed.”

The school’s faculty members strongly denounced the offering at a meeting this week, calling it “egregiously invalid,” “probably unconstitutional” and “antithetical to principles of academic freedom.”

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