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70-Year-Old Former Volkswagen CEO Charged With Fraud Over Emissions Scandal (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
The U.S.government has charged Martin Winterkorn, the former chief executive officer of Volkswagen, with fraud in the company's diesel emissions-cheating scandal. The indictment was unsealed in Detroit on Thursday, revealing that Winterkorn had been charged on March 14 with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud Volkswagen's American customers and violate the Clean Air Act...
Volkswagen admitted in late 2015 that it fitted as many as 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with software that could cheat emissions tests... The indictment alleges that Winterkorn was made aware of emissions cheating in May 2014 and July 2015, and that he agreed with other senior executives to continue the practice... Winterkorn, 70, is believed to be a resident of Germany. He is the ninth person charged by the U.S. government over emissions cheating.
Volkswagen admitted in late 2015 that it fitted as many as 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with software that could cheat emissions tests... The indictment alleges that Winterkorn was made aware of emissions cheating in May 2014 and July 2015, and that he agreed with other senior executives to continue the practice... Winterkorn, 70, is believed to be a resident of Germany. He is the ninth person charged by the U.S. government over emissions cheating.
Karma is alive and well!
... Ferdinand Piech has the last laugh.
they'll tie it up in court until he dies.
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And the American bankers who caused the '08 meltdown got bonuses for breaking the law.
in Germany he can do time at very easy one!
The US generally doesn't extradite its citizens, and even citizen war criminals. It's unlikely he'll be extradited either -- worst case, he'll be stuck in Germany.
Americans...always projecting.
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Oh wait, wrong guy. Carry on.
He better watch out his kornhole doesn't get raped in prison.
There's always a clueless punk idiot like you who makes a comment about someone becoming the victim of rape.
What you need is to be raped yourself.
That would shut you up.
coal companies are blowing the top off of mountains and detroying streams and creeks and they are not in violation of the clean water act.
Absolute statements are never true
That would be fitting in oh-so-many ways.
I must say your sober, polite and factual text have made me realize what I fool I have been all my life. I'll now convert and spend my remaining time in a monastery contemplating over these truths.
Kind of surprised Trump isn't giving him some kind of award for such a great effort polluting and helping Trump achieve his goal of making America the new China with beautiful smogs.
Germany do extradite its citizen and there are treaty for it, supplemented by EU wide treaty. In fact here is the german/us one : https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
What it does not allow like many other EU country, is to extradite if there is a death penalty. Either the target country has to give up the death +penalty, or never apply it. I think winterkorn is safe from death penalty , so if the offense is valid under german law (and fraud is) extradition is not off the table.
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Sound like someone got raped this morning. Did you like it? Was it a big black cock that reamed your cornhole?
You forgot to also give his race and sexual orientation in the title.
How about "Former Volkswagen CEO Charged With Fraud Over Emissions Scandal"?
As we now know to be true, in 2008, agencies and individuals in the United States committed a massive amount of fraud in the run-up to what is in all possibility one of the worst financial crimes yet seen.
Although many of the victims of that crime were American citizens who lost jobs and homes because of the bankers' greed, they were not the only ones. Investors and savers and pensioners the world over have been absolutely devastated because of that one event, with literally tens of thousands of people across the world working into their 70s and 80s - literally until they drop dead - because of that massive amount of financial mis-management.
I appreciate that the 2008 financial crimes and the subsequent emissions scandal are two very different crimes, but how come not one US banker is serving time for what happened in 2008? How come the United States hasn't given up any of the culprits to those nations whose citizens have been robbed?
The American people have every right to be angry with the emissions scandal. What was done was wrong. I am not trying to argue otherwise. However, I am pointing out that when crimes span countries, justice is far from even-handed.
I would absolutely stand with the environmental campaigners of the United States and demand justice for the way that VAG conspired to cheat emissions testing for their vehicles. However, that would be conditional upon fair and even-handed exercise of justice. We simply can't go around selectively choosing how to serve justice.
For example, it also wasn't fair for the United States to bring a misdemeanour charge and $100,000 in fines against former General David Patreus and then convict Chelsea Manning of 19 charges including theft and espionage and then sentence her to 35 years in prison. In order for justice to work, it not only has to be fair, it has to be seen to be fair.
I'm not for one moment suggesting that the United States should not seek compensation from Volkswagen, but if they are going to ask for it, then they need to offer up an equal amount of justice for all those outside the United States who have been wronged or injured by the actions of US citizens. Anything less is hypocrisy - and it serves to undermine any good that the United States tries to do in the world.
corruption is the new pretext of US to try to destabilize UE companies (so that they are not a threat to them or so then can buy them for a low price)
If UE applies the same rules as US does then Tim Cook should be in jail for now
with exhaust gases until he dies over a period of two years where he is to hunt for rats in his cell for food with slightly contaminated water. At least, that's what would look like justice to me.
The socalled civilized justice system is leading to contaminated air, so it's clearly not working.
"instead of the jewish state's foundation."
If you think this is something worth celebrating then fuck you right in the fucking face you dumb fuck!
Announcing this in Detroit is just a nonsensical political statement that derides any pretence this is about the public good.
Well... it's different than what the common rhetoric.
If I used the Russians, or the Chinese... maybe throw some N. Koreans here and there, I'd be more popular and persuasive.
This doesn't change the fact that nobody bats an eye about VW's corruption in the E.U. because they are germans.
Germany is the only country in Europe that has done anything at all about curruption in the car industry. Remember the criminal investigations into Fiat Chrysler, Renault-Nissan, Ford and PSA? There is plenty of evidence of cheating much wortse than what happened at VW (and most certainly compared to Daimler and BMW) in each case, but somehow actually prosecuting any of the non-German car makers seems to be blocked completely by bureaucracy and political pressure.
Germany has been the no.1 factor of corruption in E.U. with Siemens, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraport, Bayer and Deutsche Bank.
(there's a longer list, but I don't bother listing it here)
Nobody dares to touch VW in E.U., that's the problem, and Germany won't do anything about it because it's their company.
Germany has been extremely aggressive against VW. They can't do much, since it seems they did not actually violate any laws outside the US, but there is a massive criminal investigation with dozens of suspects. You can always count on Germany to go after every tiny misstep of German companies while completely ignoring the crimes of foreign competitors.