Ex-Volkswagen exec Oliver Schmidt gets 7 years, $400,000 fine for U.S. emissions violations

Oliver Schmidt, the former executive who spearheaded Volkswagen's multiyear efforts to keep its conspiracy to cheat on diesel emissions a secret from U.S. regulators, received the maximum sentence possible from a federal judge in Detroit.

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