{"id":145696,"date":"2016-02-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/vw-ceo-tipped-off-about-u-s-diesel-probe-earlier-than-previously-known\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:00:00","slug":"vw-ceo-tipped-off-about-u-s-diesel-probe-earlier-than-previously-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/vw-ceo-tipped-off-about-u-s-diesel-probe-earlier-than-previously-known\/","title":{"rendered":"VW CEO Tipped Off About U.S. Diesel Probe Earlier Than Previously Known"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102421_vw-ceo-tipped-off-about-u-s-diesel-probe-earlier-than-previously-known\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/martin-winterkorn_100415401_t.gif?w=90\" alt=\"Martin Winterkorn\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Did Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn know about the company&#8217;s \u201cdefeat device\u201d 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&#8217;s become a possibility he might have known that U.S. officials were starting to ask&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102421_vw-ceo-tipped-off-about-u-s-diesel-probe-earlier-than-previously-known\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102421_vw-ceo-tipped-off-about-u-s-diesel-probe-earlier-than-previously-known\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/tmb\/martin-winterkorn_100415401_t.gif\" alt=\"Martin Winterkorn\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Did Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn know about the company&#8217;s \u201cdefeat device\u201d 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&#8217;s become a possibility he might have known that U.S. officials were starting to ask&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1102421_vw-ceo-tipped-off-about-u-s-diesel-probe-earlier-than-previously-known\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greencarreports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}