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Nine Japanese Companies, Two Execs to Plead Guilty in Ongoing Auto Parts...
Source: United States Department of Justice Nine Japanese auto suppliers and two executives have agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $740 million in fines for participating in a price fixing...
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Congressional Hearings Loom As Switch Swap Raises Questions At GM
General Motors is facing two separate lawsuits related to failures of the ignition switch recalled last month, while also preparing to bring their case before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce...
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U.S. Treasury Loses $11.2 Billion In Accounting Of GM Bailout
Detroit Free Press reports the U.S. Treasury lost $11.2 billion in taxpayer money from the rescue of General Motors back in 2008, up from the $10.3 billion estimated after the agency sold its...
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Delphi “Not A Target” Of DOJ Investigation
Though under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service over abode issues, Delphi says it is not under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over its part of the February 2014 General...
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GM Financial Subpoenaed By DOJ In Subprime Lending Review
While the parent company goes through the federal ringer over product safety, GM Financial is under the gun after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding potential deceptive...
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Hyundai, Kia Fined $300M By State, Federal Agencies Over Erroneous Fuel...
Being an asterisk regarding fuel economy numbers isn’t the only penance Hyundai and Kia must pay: The U.S. Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources...
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Twenty Japanese Execs Hide In Local Exile From US DOJ
At present, 20 Japanese executives are charged with price-fixing by the U.S. Department of Justice. Extradition, however, is proving hard to accomplish. Automotive News reports that while most of the...
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Honda Fined $70M By NHTSA For Data Reporting Failures
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Thursday that it would fine Honda $70 million “for failing to report death and injury data in a timely manner.” Autoblog reports the fine...
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US Justice Department Bans Local, State Police From Using Federal Civil...
The United States Department of Justice announced Friday that local and state law enforcement can no longer use federal programs to seize the assets of those believed to have committed a crime without...
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Hyundai, Kia $360M US Justice Department Settlement Approved In District Court
The $360 million settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Hyundai and Kia for overstating fuel economy figures was approved Tuesday by the U.S. District Court for the District of...
View ArticleFormer Volkswagen Employee Claims Unlawful Firing Over Data Deletions
A former employee, who was fired after news of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions scandal broke, is claiming in a lawsuit that he was let go from the automaker after noticing data related to the scandal was...
View Article‘Unnatural Acts Department’: Sales Fraud Investigators Uncover Fiat Chrysler...
Federal investigators probing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for alleged sales tampering have uncovered a strange phrase that they believe is a code word. According to the Wall Street Journal, company...
View ArticleU.S. Pondering a Criminal Fine that Stops Just Short of Killing Volkswagen:...
How much can we chop away while keeping the body alive? The U.S. Justice Department’s plans for Volkswagen’s criminal fine is like a horror movie, only with corporate finances playing the role of a...
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