VW CEO Tipped Off About U.S. Diesel Probe Earlier Than Previously Known

Martin Winterkorn

Did Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn know about the company’s “defeat device” built into its diesel vehicles, and the impending scandal, as early as May 2014? Based on some information recently leaked to a German newspaper, Bild-Zeitung, it’s become a possibility he might have known that U.S. officials were starting to ask… …read more