WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge in Detroit sentenced former engineer James Liang to 40 months in prison on Friday for his role in Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) multiyear scheme to sell diesel cars that generated more pollution than U.S. clean air rules allowed.
U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox also ordered Liang to pay a $200,000 fine, 10 times the amount sought by federal prosecutors. Cox said he hoped the prison sentence and fine would deter other auto industry engineers and executives from similar schemes to deceive regulators and consumers.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Entropy on Sunday November 26 2017, @08:59PM (1 child)
Why? Because they got more powerful, better miles per gallon engines than would otherwise be possible? Diesel engines are unfairly demonized in emissions by focusing on NOx emissions, rather than looking at the many other involved factors such as that diesel engines utilize fuel in proportion to how much power output they are producing at the moment, unlike gas engines that use a ton at idle.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @12:06AM
You conveniently leave out diesel's dirty little secret...
It produces particulate matter of a size that becomes lodged deep in human lungs, and even you can't be simple enough to deny the links between carcinogenic material and cancer, I hope.