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It was all the fault of this one guy not doing his job. Also, it's just a coincidence that we fired his peers who were doing their jobs, and that the one who went to the feds was found dead in his car recently.

They remember that VW "it was a lone developer" play.

Then they would have forgotten that former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn was indicted on fraud and conspiracy charges.

That was 4 years ago, and the case has not gone to trial.

Trial is starting this year: https://apnews.com/article/germany-volkswagen-diesel-scandal...

who was charged and went to prison

Also, that one bank employee (Kareem Serageldin) that went to jail over the financial crisis.

Don't worry guys, we got him.

An utter disgrace.

Exactly this. Could it be we told the safety inspector to do X inspections a day (which would be literally impossible) or be reprimanded? Nope, it's the person's fault for falsifying the inspection. No need to do a root cause analysis.