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Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-walk-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled) a loophole in the 1970 Clean Air Act could make it impossible for U.S. prosecutors to subject Volkswagen to criminal charges over its use of standards-dodging 'defeat devices' in its emissions-testing software. Prosecutors are now reported to be considering alternative methods, including (considerably lesser) charges that Volkswagen lied to regulation authorities.

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  1. Just makes them look even more guilty by kheldan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they're already trying to worm their way out of this on technicalities then in my opinion that just makes the guilty look all that much more guilty.

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