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For true crime fans: Great podcast on the VW scandal

https://omny.fm/shows/the-case-files/the-people-v-vw

Volkswagen Patriarch is Dead

Ferdinand Piëch, who dominated Volkswagen for two decades and is often blamed for creating the win-at-all-costs culture that led to the diesel scandal, collapsed in a Bavarian restaurant. Piëch was a central character in "Faster, Higher, Farther." Here's my obit in The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/business/ferdinand-piech-dead.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fjack-ewing&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection

Audi's involvement in the VW diesel scandal was even more blatant than we knew

After more than $30 billion in fines, numerous indicted executives and a guilty plea in the United States, you wouldn’t think there was much more to learn about the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

Wrong. Nearly four years after Volkswagen confessed to systematically evading pollution rules for a decade, facets of the scandal are still coming to light.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/business/audi-vw-emissions-scandal.html

Student who helped expose the VW scandal fired by GM, must return to India

Hemanth Kapanna was one of the graduate students whose study of Volkswagen diesels alerted authorities to the emissions cheating. He later got a job at GM, but was laid off and forced to return to his native India.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/business/hermanth-kappanna-vw-emissions-gm.html

Faster, Higher, Farther is on sale

How did the world's largest carmaker commit one of the biggest environmental crimes of all times? Get my book about the Volkswagen scandal for $2.99 for a limited time. Faster, Higher, Farther by Jack Ewing https://lnkd.in/dNMbSPa via @BookBub

Director of the film version of "Faster, Higher, Farther" has given an interview to his hometown newspaper in Germany

Edward Berger, native of Wolfsburg and son of a Volkswagen worker, spoke to the Wolfsburger Nachrichten about how envisions turning my book into a film. For German speakers, here is a link. It's behind a pay wall, so here is also a link to a story in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which summarizes the interview.

https://www.wolfsburger-nachrichten.d...

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaf...

VW CEO knew of emissions cheating in 2007, SEC says

In the paperback edition of "Faster, Higher, Farther" I reported how top Volkswagen engineers sought approval for emissions cheating software in 2007, and prepared a presentation on the topic for a meeting that included Martin Winterkorn, then the chief executive. Volkswagen denied that Winterkorn ever saw the presentation or knew about the fraud. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit which backs up my reporting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/bu...

Director chosen for VW movie

http://collider.com/leonardo-dicaprio...

Shout out from Business Insider

Business Insider has included "Faster, Higher, Farther" on its list of 16 books about the biggest business scams of our time. I'm thrilled to be listed alongside classics like The Big Short, Too Big to Fail, and Barbarians at the Gate.

https://www.businessinsider.de/busine...#

VW emissions scandal update

There have been new developments in the Volkswagen emissions scandal since my book was published. Here are links to some of the most significant stories about Volkswagen that I've written for The New York Times:

My exclusive report on Volkswagen's use of monkey testing to try to show that diesel was "clean"--except the tests were rigged:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/wo...

The scandal reaches top management (as my book predicted) after the chief of Audi is jailed and the former chief of Volkswagen is indicted in the United States:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/bu...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/bu...

How hedge funds, burned a decade ago, are getting even with Volkswagen and its Porsche family owners:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/bu...