Wanna buy a volkswagen

Mr_Truth · Jan 11, 2017

Off Topic, if you please ....

Having grown up in the Brooklyn ghetto back in the 1960s, I well remember when the sidewalks were lined with multiple VW Beetles:

They were readily affordable even for the working poor. Best of all, they were the only cars on the streets that did not freeze in winter.

waltky · Jan 11, 2017

Additional executives could potentially face charges...

Six Volkswagen executives indicted in emission scandal
January 11,`17 - U.S. officials indicted six executives at German automaker Volkswagen on Wednesday in connection with companys efforts to deliberately deceive U.S. regulators about the emissions standards of its diesel engine vehicles and sell those cars illegally to American drivers.

Five of the six executives are currently in Germany, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch said it was too soon to say how that will impact legal proceedings moving forward. Additional executives at the company are being investigated and could potentially face charges, she said.

The Justice Department officially handed down criminal and civil penalties for Volkswagen on Wednesday afternoon. Volkswagen has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal counts, a rare admission of wrongdoing for a major company, and pay $4.3 billion in fines. As you know we cannot put companies in jail, but we can hold their employees personally accountable and make companies pay hefty fines, said FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. This is really a reflection of the fact that faceless multinational corporations dont commit crimes, flesh-and-blood people commit crimes, added Sally Q. Yates, deputy attorney general. And weve sharpened our focus to ensure that were doing everything from the very beginning of an investigation to hold those individuals accountable and build out from there.

GM and Toyota both incurred steep fines from the Department of Justice in recent years connected to safety defects that caused human fatalities. Neither company faced criminal charges or admitted to wrongdoing. Officials said Wednesday that the Volkswagen case stood out because the deception lasted 10 years and involved senior managers. This is a company where lower-level people actually expressed concern along the way about the fact that these defeat devices were being used and questioned whether they should be used, and higher-up people decided to keep using them, said Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell. We dont really see many major multinational corporations that decide at a very high level . . . to violate U.S. law in a systematic way for nearly a decade, she added.

The six executives face charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and American consumers, and violation of the U.S. Clean Air Act. Those indicted include Heinz-Jakob Neusser, 56, Jens Hadler, 50, Richard Dorenkamp, 68, Bernd Gottweis, 69, Oliver Schmidt, 48, and Jürgen Peter, 59, all of Germany. Schmidt was arrested and charged earlier this week in Miami. All of the accused have ties to Volkswagens engine development and quality assurance divisions, both in the U.S. and Germany. According to the Department of Justice, Hadler and Dorenkamp directed employees to develop and install the technology to evade emissions testing. The accused then marketed the car engines as clean diesel knowing they did not meet U.S. standards. Peter also served as one of Volkswagens liaisons with regulators in 2015. A spokesman for Volkswagen declined to disclose the employment status of the six indicted individuals, citing a policy not to discuss ongoing investigations or personnel matters.

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waltky · Jan 28, 2017

What did he know and when did he know it?...

Ex-Volkswagen CEO 'knew about emissions cheating earlier than claimed'
Saturday 28th January, 2017 - German prosecutors have expanded their probe into Volkswagen's diesel car emissions scandal, claiming they have evidence former CEO Martin Winterkorn may have known of the cheating earlier than he claimed.

The 69-year-old stepped down in September 2015, days after news emerged in the US of Volkswagen's use of software which turned off emissions controls. He said at the time that he was not aware of any wrongdoing on his part. Winterkorn said before a parliamentary committee last week that he first heard the term "defeat device", the technical name for the illegal software, in September 2015 - even though US authorities had been pressing Volkswagen for months over emissions test discrepancies and the cheating had been going on for several years.

Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen

Prosecutors in Braunschweig said that based on investigations, Winterkorn "could have known of the manipulative software earlier than publicly asserted by him". They have increased the number of suspects in their investigation from 21 to 37 people, with 28 locations including offices and private homes searched in Germany this week. Winterkorn and others are now being investigated on allegations they committed fraud. In a June statement, prosecutors said Winterkorn was being investigated only over market manipulation for not making a timely disclosure of the possible financial consequences of the problem.

US prosecutors have separately charged seven former Volkswagen employees. The company has agreed to pay 4.3 billion dollars (£3.4 billion) in fines to settle criminal charges and reached a 15 billion dollar (£11.8 billion) civil settlement in the US with environmental authorities and car owners. The software enabled the car to detect when it was on the test stand and turn on emission controls, and then to turn them off during normal driving.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...s-cheating-earlier-than-claimed-35403255.html
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