VW Engineer Spills The Beans - The ENTIRE Design Team Was In On The Diesel Cheat!

A Volkswagen engineer has agreed to spill the details of his involvement in the VW emissions scandal.

Former engineer James Robert Liang took a plea deal with the US federal government to cooperate with its ongoing investigation of how the German carmaker cheated American emissions tests and passed off its "clean diesel" engines as meeting state and government clean air standards.

While VW executives have claimed that the use of a defeat device to artificially limit emissions during tests was the work of a "couple of software engineers," Liang's plea deal shows that the conspiracy dates back roughly a decade and has roots in the team that designed the engines.

In other words, Liang claims the design team was in on it, not just a couple of bad apples.

TheSteve - 9/13/2016 1:22:35 PM

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But I'm sure the execs knew nothing about it. [/sarcasm]

Actually -- sarcasm aside -- what I mean is that the working classes will pay for this in the form of jail time and fines while the wealthy execs will go free. That's the way things are done :-(

Agent009 - 9/13/2016 1:37:32 PM

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Probably true.. this guy is probably going to jail for 5 years or so if he can't strike a deal

MDarringer - 9/13/2016 8:28:49 PM

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Send Piech to prison to be raped!

mre30 - 9/13/2016 9:42:48 PM

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Hope the "witness" got a good deal from the DOJ! They are usually pretty generous/forgiving if a witness can provide the "goods".

This guy seems to be a pretty credible "cooperator" based on how the media has presented him.