throw the book at

And if the court has now decided to throw the book at him in the Libya affair, maybe it is because the charge of trying to elicit election funds from a foreign dictator is actually a rather serious one.

“Throw the book at them,” Fred Sutton, a senior vice president with the California Apartment Assn., told the L.A.

But working against him is a long pattern of behavior that seems designed in a lab to infuriate a judge, who may also choose to lean on a presentencing report that says to throw the book at Bankman-Fried.

"If average New Yorkers went into a bank and submitted false documents, the government would throw the book at them, and the same should be true for former presidents. Last I checked tourism is up. Wall Street is doing just fine."

Premier Chris Minns has added: "If there's been a breach of the law then, of course, we'll throw the book at them."