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Pat is one of 16 owners of Camstick Ltd. This corporation has been fined $30,000 for polluting the town's water supply. Pat is on the board and now finds himself charged and being convicted on the same matter. The judge finds that Pat personally knew and did nothing about the polluting. Not only that, but he has no remorse concerning the incident. The judge is now giving him, under the Environmental Protection Act, the maximum prison term of


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