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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @12:01AM
And before Sony, it was Toshiba, who sold state of the art bearing manufacturing technology to the Russians some years ago, which translated into very quiet prop-shaft bearings for their boomer subs.
Yup, people stopped consuming Toshiba products in droves, not.