Pontius Pilate, who we know from contemporary documents was recalled by the Senate to explain the harshness of his actions in Palestine Anthony Blond's rather entertaining book A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors says: "Pontius Pilate, who we now know to have been a prefect, not just a procurator, was constantly being complained about. Philo quotes Agrippa as calling him 'inflexible, heartless and obstinate'. Pilate was never prosecuted, but was recalled to Rome in AD 36 for what amounted to lack of tact on a monstrous scale."
Given the generally brutal mores of the time, one does have to ask how bad Pilate must have been in order for the Roman authorities (Tiberius would have been emperor at this point, succeeded by Caligula a year later) to have considered him relatively beyond the pale.
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Anthony Blond's rather entertaining book A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors says: "Pontius Pilate, who we now know to have been a prefect, not just a procurator, was constantly being complained about. Philo quotes Agrippa as calling him 'inflexible, heartless and obstinate'. Pilate was never prosecuted, but was recalled to Rome in AD 36 for what amounted to lack of tact on a monstrous scale."
Given the generally brutal mores of the time, one does have to ask how bad Pilate must have been in order for the Roman authorities (Tiberius would have been emperor at this point, succeeded by Caligula a year later) to have considered him relatively beyond the pale.