Fiat Chrysler manager lied about emissions even after VW scandal broke, indictment charges

A grand jury indicted a senior manager at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV on charge...

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Emanuele Palma, a diesel drivability and emissions senior manager at Fiat Chrysler, faces charges of conspiracy, fraud, violating federal environmental law and making false statements stemming from work on Fiat Chrysler’s emissions system in U.S. vehicles with diesel engines, according to the indictment unsealed Tuesday.

After the disclosure of Volkswagen’s emissions fraud in September 2015, the indictment states that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked Fiat Chrysler for more testing of its diesel vehicles. In November 2015, the EPA warned Fiat Chrysler that it suspected some of its vehicles were using secret software to defeat emissions tests.

Fiat Chrysler said in a statement Tuesday morning it was “just learning about details of the matter. We will continue to cooperate fully with authorities.”The developments in the U.S. criminal probe signal additional scrutiny of Fiat Chrysler’s environmental practices on the horizon, despite the automaker’s January settlement of civil claims stemming from the alleged emissions violations.

Fiat Chrysler at the time said the settlement did not change the company’s “position that it did not engage in any deliberate scheme to install defeat devices to cheat emissions tests.”

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