Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal

satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I long for the day that ANYTHING close to this happens in the USA

  I guess you’ve good news, then.

  Across the Atlantic, two former VW engineers — Oliver Schmidt and James Robert Liang — are already serving prison sentences in the U.S. Schmidt, who once led VW’s environmental office in the U.S., was sentenced to seven years after initially denying guilt but later reaching a plea deal. Liang received 40 months after cooperating with prosecutors.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To salvage the argument, it’s quite possible this would have been different if they were from GM rather than VW.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It most likely would‘ve. Just look how quickly US courts started to turn Monsanto into shreds the very second Bayer bought it. They‘re after that so called stupid German money. Wouldn‘t work if it was American money.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I dunno, VW is about as American as GM.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    two former VW engineers

    Yeah, unless they are Chief Engineers, these two are just people who got caught in the churn.

    Wake me up when the President of US Operations gets sentenced to prison. Hell, I’ll even be okay with club Fed.

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    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are like the one guy who went to jail for the 08 financial crisis

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  • nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    two former VW engineers

    Not CEOs

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Neither were the people in Germany.

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      • ascense@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        According to Wikipedia, he should have a criminal trial in Germany starting this year, so it’s possible he will still get sentenced there as well.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Russia?

        Saudi Arabia might take him. Hell, they put up Idi Amin for the remainder of his syphilis-scarred life.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the most unbelievable part: a us court held management responsible for criminal behavior? Did that not pay their fines? Did no one have a spare jet to offer?

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• MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When you don’t read the article ^

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, I get what you’re saying, but we’re used to engineers and regular workers getting arrested here. We’ve got one of the most… comprehensive?.. prison systems in the world. It’s just so rare to find executives and anyone making over $300k suffer any real consequences.

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• TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why aim low, why not public flogging, and pillories?

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  • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about we don’t bring back corporal punishment. I get the sentiment, but i’d rather our justice system didn’t turn into a torture system.

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems like it also doesn’t happen in Germany, as the post title doesn’t match the article.

  The two people sent to jail are middle managers (Head of XY), not executives.

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