General Motors agreed to pay $900 million and admit to misleading the government and the public about the safety of its vehicles to end a U.S. criminal investigation into its handling of defective ignition switches linked to 124 deaths.The settlement and charges, which were detailed in papers filed today in Manhattan federal court, have transformed the relationship between the automaker and the U.S. government, which had bailed out GM during the financial crisis.
GM admitted to failing to disclose to its U.S. regulator and the public a potentially lethal safety defect with the switches that kept airbags from deploying in some vehicles.
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