Volkswagen fine vs real corporate criminal fines

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Obsessed said:
Not entirely true. The 6.0 is a powerhouse. But regulation forced the changes to the engines. You can delete all that crap and stud the heads, and it's just as dependable as the 7.3.

My 6.4 screams when I hit the go pedal. But it is deleted and tuned.

The wife's 6.0 is all stock pushing 300,000 miles. I am afraid it's going to need some injectors this winter though.
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Are you man enough to give her that injector now instead of waiting for winter?
 
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#27
Grand Vol said:
Are you man enough to give her that injector now instead of waiting for winter?
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Well. She's going to need all 8 injectors. It will be tough, time consuming, and tedious work. But, she should purr like a kitten afterwards.

:)
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Disgusting... when will we jail the banksters?

VW exec gets maximum sentence, fine for Dieselgate role
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The real shame in all this is that there is always a scapegoat - picked by having some degree of responsibility but far enough removed from people at the top demanding that something work as they dictate. In retrospect being fired, losing a position, or losing a bonus for defending a position that something couldn't be done would have been a better option, but there is always someone who will bend under pressure.

Where we are all losers in this is what's next? Finding out that exploding homes are the result of manufacturing execs dictating to engineers a choice or materials or design in gas fittings? Maybe finding that your new self driving car has a few kinks of its own because software is never really done and more testing was time and dollars lost?

You are right about the banksters and the people at the top - unless some start spending time in prison (real ones) there's no reason for them to worry - there's always a scapegoat if a slap on the wrist fine is off the table. If CEOs justify millions in salary because they make it all happen, then they need to be taking the blame, too.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Disgusting... when will we jail the banksters?

VW exec gets maximum sentence, fine for Dieselgate role
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Oliver Schmidt, 48, was sentenced to 7 years in prison and fined $400,000 in federal court here for his role in the automaker’s diesel emissions cheating scandal. The German national had pleaded guilty in August to two charges in Volkswagen’s scheme to rig nearly 600,000 diesel cars to evade U.S. pollution standards.

“This crime ... attacks and destroys the very foundation of our economic system: That is trust,” U.S. District Judge Sean Cox said Wednesday in sentencing Schmidt. “Senior management at Volkswagen has not been held accountable.”

Yet the furious backlash to Volkwagen’s duplicity drove former CEO Martin Winterkorn to resign in September 2015, soon after the scandal broke. It was one of the rare executive departures in a transatlantic scheme that rocked so-called “Deutschland AG,” undermined confidence in one of Germany’s corporate pillars and forced the automaker to pay at least $16 billion in fines and settlements.
 
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