Bosch Demanded Volkswagen Provide Legal Cover For Emissions Cheating As Early As 2008

Robert Bosch GmbH demanded eight years ago that Volkswagen AG indemnify it for using the emissions-cheating defeat device that it helped the automaker create for its diesel engines, U.S. car owners said in a new version of their lawsuit against both companies.

Bosch is accused in the lawsuit of conspiring with VW to develop technology that enabled diesel vehicles to evade pollution-control tests. After seeking legal protection from VW for its use of the device in the U.S., the German auto supplier continued to participate in the conspiracy to hide the cheating from regulators, car owners said in a court filing citing a 2008 letter from Bosch to VW.

MDarringer - 9/7/2016 8:54:53 AM

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If Bosch was concerned, they needed to refuse to build the devices. Money spoke to them, thus they are conspirators. Burn Bosch.

Bosch's ethics were: "Hey VW, we'll build all the illegal components you want as long as you take all the blame."

#idiocy

TomM - 9/7/2016 10:58:35 AM

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I am sure that VW is a major customer of Bosch - and that would create two problems
1- Could Bosch afford to lose that much business.
2- It would also force the release of WHY they would to their stockholders.

This problem would have been caught years earlier.

MDarringer - 9/7/2016 8:15:11 PM

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Leave it to @TomM to go Democrat and try to explain why criminal behavior is OK. #LackOfMoralCompass