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DOJ Should Have Prosecuted GM; EPA: VW Cheated Clean Air Act; Life Sentence for Tainted Peanuts
Legal Expert Says DOJ Should Have Criminally Prosecuted General Motors. Professor Rena Steinzor says GM’s $900 million settlement with the US government makes it likely that no one at GM will be held personally responsible for the 124 deaths tied to the corporation’s faulty ignition switches.
EPA accuses Volkswagen of cheating Clean Air Act, orders recall. Volkswagen has been cheating federal emission standards since 2008, spewing as much as 40 times more pollution than allowed by equipping its cars with a “defeat device” that fools the official test, the Obama administration said on Friday.
A life sentence for shipping tainted peanuts? Victims’ families say yes. Federal officials have recommended that Parnell receive a life sentence — the harshest punishment ever for a food-related crime. Parnell, who for decades ran the Virginia-based Peanut Corporation of America, was found guilty last year on more than 70 criminal charges.
