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: 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.