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  VW Exec Arrested
  MikeInNH January 9, 2017, 6:19pm #1
  Good. I hope he gets hard time.
  The executive, Oliver Schmidt, led the automaker's regulatory compliance office in the United States from 2014 to March 2015.
  jtsanders January 9, 2017, 7:55pm #2
  I hope so, too, assuming he is found guilty.
  db4690 January 10, 2017, 1:20am #3
  Can we assume VW and the US government reached some kind of a deal, and this guy is the designated scapegoat?
  sgtrock21 January 10, 2017, 1:25am #4
  A comment on the news article I read had him thrown under a bus. I asked if it would be a vintage 21 window VW bus, LOL
  dagosa January 10, 2017, 3:13am #5
  Hopefully it doesn't end there. One guy as a fall guy isn't enough. This had to be a company wide conspiracy.
  jtsanders January 10, 2017, 9:15pm #6
  Bust one and see how many he rolls over on, trading his story about how it unfolded for leniency. I doubt it will stop here unless him VW colleagues pay him too much to keep quiet.
  MikeInNH January 10, 2017, 10:21pm #7
  Just busting one is a step in the right direction. Maybe it'll be a wakeup call to other executives. They may think twice since the feds may now come after them. Too bad this didn't happen back in the 70's…maybe there wouldn't have been as many deaths from the Pinto.
  texases January 10, 2017, 10:53pm #8
  News today - VW expected to pay $4.3 billion to settle the criminal charges, on top of the $15 billion buy-back program. Don't know how this affect the arrested guy:
  Volkswagen Expected To Pay $4.3 Billion To Settle The Dieselgate Criminal Case
  Volkswagen has already been asked to pay about $15 billion to buy back cars and mitigate environmental pollution caused by their NOx-spewing diesels. But now, Bloomberg reports, the company may have to pay another $4.3 billion to resolve the civil...
  VDCdriver January 10, 2017, 11:01pm #9
  I think that it affects him…not at all.
  Corporate culpability is one legal issue, and the conspiracy of various corporate employees–such as Oliver Schmidt–to participate in the corporation's schemes is another issue entirely.