DOJ Indicts 4 Audi Engineers In Conspiracy To Skirt US Emission Laws

The U.S. Department of Justice indicted four employees of Audi AG who lived and worked in Germany for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to skirt U.S. emissions tests for model year 2009-15 Audi vehicles equipped with a 3.0-liter diesel engine and sold in the United States.

The indictments were filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Detroit. A spokesman for the court said hearings in the case have not been set.

Indicted were Richard Bauder, the former head of Audi's diesel engine development department in Neckarsulm, Germany; Axel Eiser, head of Audi's engine development division in Ingolstadt, Germany, in 2008-13; Stefan Knirsch, who succeeded Eiser in Ingolstadt in 2013 but left the company in 2016; and Carsten Nagel, head of engine registration in Neckarsulm.

TheSteve - 1/18/2019 3:15:33 PM

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Idict the leaders -- the executives. A corporation always reflects the character (or lack thereof) its leaders.

Old Italian saying: "A Fish Rots From the Head Down"

MDarringer - 1/18/2019 8:27:19 PM

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#PiechKnew
#PiechIsResponsible

mre30 - 1/19/2019 7:39:54 AM

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Piech is the Donald Trump of Porsche/VW/Audi - its likely he is a micromanager who has his hands in everything and no decision gets made without his say-so.

MDarringer - 1/19/2019 9:28:26 AM

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I'd say he's more of a Clinton. Piech is much more dirty and sleazy, so yeah...Clintons

xjug1987a - 1/20/2019 5:54:11 PM

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No question ClintStones... lining their pockets from "public service". Both belong in prison... what a pathetic loser to say Trump is corrupt. Guy doesnt need this crap, he's doing something, not lining his pockets. Guy works for free. Pathetic snowfreak...

mini22 - 1/20/2019 5:06:22 PM

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Piech is definitely NOT Donald Trump. If he were VAG would have filed multiple bankruptcies and would have forged alliances with Moscow Motors.

xjug1987a - 1/20/2019 5:57:16 PM

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snowflake... you lost, get over it. We put up with the incompetent community organizer for 8 pathetic years...

mini22 - 1/21/2019 3:11:25 AM

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So we traded a community organizer for a sexual predator that's in bed with Putin, a racist and is an autocratic wannabe. Wow what an upgrade.