Posted on 12/27/2017 8:12:05 AM PST by GonzoII
Only six months into his job, the US Justice Department-appointed monitor had some frank words for Volkswagen. “There was a corrupt corporate culture at Volkswagen,” Larry Thompson told Handelsblatt during his first interview since he started his work at VW’s headquarters in June. “It was not a culture marked by honesty and openness. The executives responsible for the affair obviously were not concerned that they would be putting their company in a precarious position.”
Mr. Thompson, the former US deputy attorney general under president George W. Bush, has been tasked with preventing any future transgressions at Volkswagen, where the monitor will spend the next three years overseeing the implementation of reforms. The US Department of Justice appointed him as special supervisor as part of a guilty plea agreed in January and settlements totaling as much as $15.3 billion. US environmental regulators revealed the scam in September 2015 after they had detected that VW cars spewed out more nitrogen oxide than regulations allow.
In the interview, Mr. Thompson said it will be years before VW has improved enough to make sure something like the emissions scandal, which affected 11 million diesel cars globally, never happens again...
(Excerpt) Read more at global.handelsblatt.com ...
Sounds like the DOJ and FBI...
When you have insane policies pretending to be science, it looks a lot less corrupt.
He should look in the mirror if he wants to see corrupt.
Sanctimonious jerk.
"...Volkswagen..."
Really? Duh moment.
Volkswagen is not an American company.
They were faced with a stupid foreign law that was ridiculously easy to defeat. They chose to comply with the letter of the law.
The fact that the US law was stupid was not their fault.
Right, I guess it takes one to know one.
I wouldn’t say that Volkswagen is not corrupt, but let’s face it, with all the rules and regs and malicious bureaucrats writing the rules and interpreting them, anyone subject to such a regime should be wary and suspicious.
Contempt and suspicion for bureaucrats and government officials is the sign of an awake populous.
I thought VW was pretty smart.
Well, until they got caught.
What else can you do when a government creates impossible standards. You either stop production or you find a way to game the system. Frankly, I’d love to have one of those “cheater” VW’s. But I have a 150 mile commute and my state doesn’t do any emission testing. :)
Exactly. I actually don’t blame VW at all.
“...after they had detected that VW cars spewed out more nitrogen oxide than...”
Written like a high school student.
You are right.
The enemy isn’t VW.
Agreed. It’s not a flaw it’s a feature. One that would cost plenty to have done.
Yup, I bought a 2015 Golf TDI diesel. Get 49 MPG average. Great power too! Oh, and 17K mileage. Just like new with a crazy warrantee.
Created and administered by unelected and unaccountable lifetime bureaucrats, to boot.
God, I sure hope that filthy swamp can be drained...
After market reversal kit and Merry Christmas.
Sounds like the DOJ and FBI...
The DoJ must be the breeder factory for new comics.. They crack me up..
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