DOJ news release: “James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel” vehicles, the Justice Department announced today.  Liang’s plea agreement provides that he will cooperate with the government in its ongoing investigation. Liang, 62, of Newbury Park, California, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, to commit wire fraud and to violate the Clean Air Act.  He was indicted under seal on June 1, 2016, by a federal grand jury, and the indictment was unsealed today.  The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Sean F. Cox of the Eastern District of Michigan. ..”
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