US Prosecutors File Charges Against Former Volkswagen CEO

US Prosecutors File Charges Against Former Volkswagen CEO
German investigators will continue their probe into former Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn's role in the automaker's diesel scandal even after the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges accusing him of conspiring to cover up the company's emissions test cheating.

Winterkorn is the highest-ranking person to be charged in the three-year investigation, opening a new chapter in the scandal that burst into the open in 2015 when VW admitted to rigging the emissions setups of some 11 million vehicles worldwide.


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TheSteveTheSteve - 5/4/2018 2:06:26 PM
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Too bad he's unlikely to see any jail time. That's reserved for underlings and scapegoats :-(


MDarringerMDarringer - 5/4/2018 4:01:05 PM
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He won't be visiting the USA soon. If the Fourth Reich weren't in power in Germany, I'd say to demand extradition.


TheSteveTheSteve - 5/5/2018 2:42:45 AM
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On the topic of "the Fourth Reich", just because Matty brought it up...

Something resembling "The Fourth Reich" is currently in power in The United States of America :-( We literally have Nazis marching in the streets of America chanting "Jews will not replace us," a president who refers to them as "Fine People", and a spineless Republican Congress that, for the most part, kowtows to a crazed, unhinged Führer while basking in the glory of unchallenged power and raiding the public coffers.

That's a bitter pill to swallow for #45's loyal followers, I am sure! Bring on the mindless derision, denial, and down-votes. I wear it as a "badge of honor," knowing the source :-)


MDarringerMDarringer - 5/5/2018 8:22:22 AM
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^^^^Predictable Clicked Response 34R.


TheSteveTheSteve - 5/5/2018 4:01:59 PM
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@MDarringer: If anything is predictable, it's your one-liner dismissive retorts -- nearly identical to the one above -- to well-articulated, factual posts that rub you the wrong way.

You and I certainly are consistent! I lay out the well thought-out facts. You dismiss them (or deny them) with 1-liners. Your reaction is predictable, and it is consistent with a quote I provided before on AutoSpies, repeated below for your (and other readers') reference...

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"Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don't understand, and what they don't understand is almost everything. Indeed, from evolution to data about our economy to the science of vaccines to the threats we face in the world, they reject vast subjects rooted in fact in order to have reality conform to their worldviews. They don't dig for truth; they skim the media for anything that makes them feel better about themselves. To many of them, knowledge is not a useful tool but a cunning barrier elites have created to keep power from the average man and woman."

- David Rothkopf
Professor of International Relations and Political Science
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MDarringerMDarringer - 5/5/2018 4:26:00 PM
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And you, sir, are so easily triggered it's hilarious.


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