Sometimes you just do not think that things cannot get any weirder. The Man From FCPA has seen some great corporate FUBARs over the years, but the one announced last week may come close to taking the cake. Further in the world of compliance and ethics, it may provide one of greatest post-Enron teaching moments for some time to come. Of course I am referring to the burgeoning scandal involving Volkswagen and its diesel engine cars, intentionally designed to cheat emission standard testing, through software cleverly nicknamed “defeat devices.”
