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24 Nov 2021, 1:11 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Introduction to the Dispute Legal opposition is forming against the settlement agreed by VW shareholders in the diesel scandal with former CEO Martin Winterkorn and ex-Audi boss Rupert Stadler. [read post]
10 Jun 2021, 3:01 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Volkswagen, several former executives –including Martin Winterkorn, the former Chair of the company’s Board of Management–  and the company’s D&O insurers have reached an agreement to settle damages claims the company asserted against the executives relating to the company’s “Dieselgate” scandal. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 7:05 am by Patrick Eckerd
German prosecutors have filed charges against Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, Chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch and former CEO Martin Winterkorn, according to a statement Tuesday. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 7:00 am by Race to the Bottom
On March 14, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged Volkswagen AG,two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, with fraud in connection with a 2015 scandal commonly known as “dieselgate. [read post]
21 Jul 2019, 5:28 pm by Glancy Law
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged Volkswagen and former chief executive officer Martin Winterkorn with investor fraud for allegedly lying about the cheating scandal. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 5:20 am by Jack Sharman
[NOTE: my friend and law school classmate Greg Schuetz co-authored this piece, which appeared in the June issue of “The Docket,” the monthly publication of the Association of Corporate Counsel. [read post]
7 May 2019, 4:40 pm by Megan Geuss
But in April, German prosecutors filed their first criminal indictment of VW Group executives, including former CEO Martin Winterkorn. [read post]
15 Apr 2019, 11:12 am by Xi Lucy Shi
German prosecutors on Monday charged former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn and four others with fraud, unfair competition and breach of trust in connection with the company’s massive, multi-year effort to cheat on diesel emissions testing. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 6:48 am
The SEC’s civil suit against Volkswagen, two of its financing subsidiaries and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, was filed more than two years after Volkswagen admitted to criminal wrongdoing related to the use of software “defeat devices” to evade emissions tests of the company’s diesel vehicles. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 11:15 am by Xi Lucy Shi
The SEC brings this civil enforcement action seeking permanent injunctions, disgorgement with prejudgment interest, and civil penalties against the corporate defendants, as well as permanent injunctions, civil penalties and an officer-and-director bar against Martin Winterkorn, VW’s CEO. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 10:26 pm by Mark Astarita
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Volkswagen AG, two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, for defrauding U.S. investors, raising billions of dollars through the corporate bond and fixed income markets while making a series of deceptive claims about the environmental impact of the company's "clean diesel" fleet.According to the SEC's complaint, from April 2014 to May 2015, Volkswagen issued more than $13 billion in bonds… [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 8:54 am
., and former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn with violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. [read post]
5 May 2018, 10:00 am by JURIST Staff
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Thursday unsealed an indictment [charges, PDF] against former Volkswagen (VW) [corporate website] CEO and chairman of the management board Martin Winterkorn on charges of fraud and conspiracy arising from the company's diesel emission-cheating scandal. [read post]
4 May 2018, 8:51 am by Kenneth Hall
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Thursday unsealed an indictment [charges, PDF] against former Volkswagen (VW) [corporate website] CEO and chairman of the management board Martin Winterkorn on charges of fraud and conspiracy arising from the company's diesel emission-cheating scandal. [read post]
3 May 2018, 9:30 pm by Sarah Madigan
Department of Justice released an indictment of Martin Winterkorn, former chief executive officer of Volkswagen, for purposefully failing to comply with emissions standards under the Clean Air Act. [read post]
3 May 2018, 4:48 pm by Megan Geuss
Enlarge / Martin Winterkorn looks on during the FC Bayern Muenchen Annual General Assembly at Audi-Dome on November 24, 2017 in Munich. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 1:38 pm by Megan Geuss
Matthias Müller became VW Group's CEO when Martin Winterkorn left, but both men are implicated in the most recent lawsuits from US states. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 10:42 am by Joe Consumer
., scapegoat CEO Martin Winterkorn, who quit in September. [read post]
7 Jul 2016, 5:30 am by Mariano Garcia
In September of 2015, when the Environmental Protection Agency revealed to the world Volkswagen’s “defeat devices,” which were aimed at illegitimately hiding the smog its cars were releasing into the air, CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned. [read post]