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The hunt for the people behind Volkswagen’s emissions scandal did not end with the company’s plea bargain this week.
There was the man identified in court documents only as “Supervisor B,” who overruled nervous subordinates and told them to develop the illegal software. Don’t get caught, he told them, according to the documents. There was “Attorney A,” who, as regulators closed in, urged co-workers to destroy any emails that mentioned the “acoustic function,” the code name for emissions cheating software.
The two suspects were conspicuously missing from the group of six Volkswagen executives indicted on Wednesday — a
There was the man identified in court documents only as “Supervisor B,” who overruled nervous subordinates and told them to develop the illegal software. Don’t get caught, he told them, according to the documents. There was “Attorney A,” who, as regulators closed in, urged co-workers to destroy any emails that mentioned the “acoustic function,” the code name for emissions cheating software.
The two suspects were conspicuously missing from the group of six Volkswagen executives indicted on Wednesday — a
