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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. Could send them to jail by Etherwalk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who's worming their way out?
    Sounds like the prosecutors are trying to make a case that won't get thrown out.
    You can't just make up law as you go along because it's morally wrong.

    You could send them to jail if you wanted to. Fraud, false statements to government, criminal conspiracy, etc...

    Just maybe not under the clean air act.