Amy federal prosecutors have agreed to settle a criminal probe into General Motors for concealing an ignition switch defect linked to at least 124 deaths. Gm will pay 900 million but no executives will be prosecuted. Too big to jail . We will speak to a woman whose 16yearold daughter died in a crash caused by a faulty ignition switch, as well as longime consumer advocate ralph nader. 50 years ago he wrote the Ground Breaking book, unsafe at any speed the designedin dangers of the american automobile. Motors knew about the defect in 2004. They kept getting feedback of fatalities, crashes, airbags not going off, engines being shut off. They covered it up. Amy and we will speak to university of Maryland School of law professor Rena Steinzor, author of, why not jail . industrial catastrophes, corporate malfeasance, and government inaction. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Federal prosecutors have agreed to
Amy federal prosecutors have agreed to settle a criminal probe into General Motors for concealing an ignition switch defect linked to at least 124 deaths. Gm will pay 900 million but no executives will be prosecuted. Too big to jail . We will speak to a woman whose 16yearold daughter died in a crash caused by a faulty ignition switch, as well as longime consumer advocate ralph nader. 50 years ago he wrote the Ground Breaking book, unsafe at any speed the designedin dangers of the american automobile. Motors knew about the defect in 2004. They kept getting feedback of fatalities, crashes, airbags not going off, engines being shut off. They covered it up. Amy and we will speak to university of Maryland School of law professor Rena Steinzor, author of, why not jail . industrial catastrophes, corporate malfeasance, and government inaction. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Federal prosecutors have agreed to
We start with politics and the congressional investigations of russia. Heres what democratic congressman mike quigley said earlier on msnbc. I feel on a continuing basis that there is increased evidence of obstruction taking place. Why are the republicans rushing this through . Why are they trying to discredit there mueller . Where are they doing any of these things . Because the investigation is getting to hot for them. Theyre not subpoenaing everyone that they should. Theyre not forcing answers from key witnesses. Theyre rushing this investigation. The interviews are taking place on an overlapping basis, often out of state, and theyre refusing to bring in certain people who would be important witnesses. Congressman quigley there. Also shedding light on whether there were any democrats present for his committees interview of longtime trump secretary, rona graff in new york yet. One democrat was able to go up to new york to do the interview that took place yesterday, but there was anot
Court orders and hand over material relevant to the investigation. Cox got fired. Leon jaworski was the successor and if the Nixon White House was hoping for somebody to be intimidated and hoping for somebody more cowed, somebody that would be less aggressive and felt at least implicitly threatened by the way cox had been ousted on direct orders from the president , that was not what they got with Leon Jaworski. Leon gentleman worse he was rock ribbed and straightforward and unintimidated and 45 years ago this month, Leon Jaworski assembled this 62page document. Summarizing material that the watergate grand jury had obtained that was relevant to understanding the president s own conduct within the watergate scandal. Now, grand juries conduct their work in secret. It is absolutely integral it be used for one purpose, drawing up indictments. Thats all grand juries do. The information that goes to them cant be used for any other purpose. However, when a grand jury collects information tha
And felt at least implicitly threatened by the way cox had been ousted on direct orders from the president , that was not what they got with Leon Jaworski. He was rock ribbed and straightforward and unintimidated and 45 years ago this month, Leon Jaworski assembled this 62page document. Summarizing material that the watergate grand jury had obtained that was relevant to understanding the president s own conduct within the watergate scandal. Now grand juries conduct their work in secret. It is absolutely entintergral ie used for one purpose, drawing up indictments. Thats all grand juries do. The information that goes to them cant be used for any other purpo purpose, however, when a grand jury collects information relevant to the misconduct of a sitting president of the United States, it has long been Justice Department policy even in the watergate era that in that instance, the end product of the grand jurys work cant be an indictment. A sitting president cant be indicted and so what is