Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 10 months agoDespite what the headline says, no execs went to jail. The two who were punished with jail terms were middle management.
Martin Winterkorn, the CEO, will probably avoid any serious consequences.
I only have cursory knowledge of this incident, but: It’s possible that was the right outcome. A lot of middle managers do some heinous shit, and then report only positive news to upper management with a “Don’t worry about it” attitude.
We all know there’s also evil CEOs in the world as well, but maybe the investigation found this wasn’t one of them. 'Course, maybe they were just better at keeping plausible deniability.
Yeah, the second one. It’s the ones prepared to do shit like that who get promoted in the first place.
The Board had discussions about how to stonewall California. US prosecutors have filed charges but Germany won’t extradite.
They are all guilty as fuck.
The US really like their prisoners, don’t they.
They demand extraditing of prisoners from other countries, but won’t ever extradite to other countries themselves.
Of course Germany won’t extradite we don’t extradite nationals to non-EU countries. It can even happen that we don’t extradite Americans to the US because they can demonstrate that they’re likely to face torture in the US, such as isolation cells.
I mean, apart from the apparent guilt, do you think any country would simply hand over its prominent nationals? If there were a case against an US CEO in Germany, hell would freeze over before extradition.
The point is that the US has gathered enough evidence to get indictments against them. Germany has access to that same evidence and has very similar laws that were violated – but has done basically nothing.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Damn, assassination for air pollution is new for me.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The rich choose to exert violence on everyone else daily. This is community defense.
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lying about emissions is violence? Like chemical warfare?