With Volkswagen facing as much as $18 billion in liability for its ongoing diesel disaster scandal, General Counsel David Geanacopoulos is likely to face the spotlight soon.
On Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accused Volkswagen of installing software — so-called “defeat devices” — on 500,000 of its clean diesel vehicles designed to cheat smog tests in the United States. The German automaker announced on Tuesday that number was actually a lot higher: 11 million of its vehicles were outfitted with the same software.
In addition to the EPA investigation which first uncovered wrongdoing, Congress has announced plans to hold hearings , and the Justice Department is reportedly ...
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