Manager all of a schmitt has been sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine a four hundred thousand dollars most secular specced and germany havent even lost their jobs Oliver Schmidt will be the first german v. W. Manager to be imprisoned for his role in the emissions scandal he admitted that he knew about the Software Manipulation and lied about it to u. S. Authorities he characterized himself as a scapegoat acting on behalf of management that didnt help him much in court but as part of his guilty plea prosecutors agreed to drop most of the counts for the time being one of the schmidt will be the final u. S. Conviction in the v. W. Emissions scandal the company manipulated the emissions values on their diesel vehicles for years the german car maker has already paid out over twenty five billion euros in compensation and fines in the u. S. Despite the scandal folks wagon is once again making record profits. All right its a big topic and we want to discuss it with our correspondent
Where the scandal was first uncovered v. W. Manager all of a schmitt has been sentenced to seven years in prison and a fine a four hundred thousand dollars most fee w. Executives spaced and germany havent even lost their jobs. Oliver schmidt will be the first german v. W. Manager to be imprisoned for his role in the emissions scandal he admitted that he knew about the Software Manipulation and lied about it to u. S. Authorities he characterized himself as a scapegoat acting on behalf of management that didnt help him much in court but as part of his guilty plea prosecutors agreed to drop most of the counts for the time being Oliver Schmidt will be the final u. S. Conviction in the v. W. Emissions scandal the company manipulated the emissions values on their diesel vehicles for years the german carmakers already paid out over twenty five billion euros in compensation and fines in the u. S. Despite the scandal folks working this once again making record profits. All right its a big topic