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Speaker 1: flash you're listening to taking stock with Pim Fox and

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Speaker 1: Kathleen Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. Fourteen point seven billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's what v W has agreed to pay to settle

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Speaker 1: its claims from the emissions cheating scandal. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the nation's largest consumer class action settlements on record, and

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Speaker 1: in fact it is the largest ever paid by an

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Speaker 1: auto company. Joining US now is Patrick Ambrosio. He's environmental

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Speaker 1: reporter for Bloomberg b n A. He joins US now

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Speaker 1: and listening to some very important testimony today. Patrick, thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. So

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Speaker 1: you were at the Department of Justice as press conference.

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Speaker 1: You're sitting on a call with plaintiffs attorneys. First of all,

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about the settlement. I

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Speaker 1: understand that a big chunk of this money is going

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Speaker 1: to be used to buy back cars with the with

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Speaker 1: the diesel engines. Uh, buying back from the customers. I

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Speaker 1: guess I'd be pretty lucky in a sense if I

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Speaker 1: owned one. Yeah, that is a significant portion of that

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Speaker 1: big fourteen point seven billion number. Today, About ten billion

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Speaker 1: of that is going to go to consumers. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: consumers will have options. There's going to be a buy

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Speaker 1: back option that should start later this year. Uh. It's

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Speaker 1: how much you're gonna get it brought back for. It

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Speaker 1: is going to depend on the model. Uh. It could

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Speaker 1: range anywhere from twelve thousand, five hundred for some of

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Speaker 1: the older vehicles to as much as forty four thousand

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Speaker 1: for for some of the more recent vehicles. UH. It's

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Speaker 1: there's also the still the potential for a fix. UH,

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Speaker 1: Folkswagan has been looking for a way to bring these

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Speaker 1: vehicles into compliance with the emission standards. They haven't gotten

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Speaker 1: it approved, but if they do get one approved, UH,

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Speaker 1: any any sort of issue that they may have. So

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Speaker 1: what kind of things did you hear to at a

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Speaker 1: press conference today and on this call a plane if attorneys?

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Speaker 1: What what is being said? What's the mood? What's the

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Speaker 1: sense of where this goes next? Uh? Well, the mood

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Speaker 1: uh for the class action of planets for the people

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Speaker 1: that bought the cars that they were saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is this is what we wanted. We wanted substantial

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Speaker 1: compensation for the people who bought these cars and didn't

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Speaker 1: get what they paid for the buyback option. That was

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Speaker 1: because they were marketed as being you know, clean diesel,

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Speaker 1: they're better for the environment. People bought them and then

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Speaker 1: only to find out they were allied to and they're

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Speaker 1: actually significantly worse than they thought. On the government side, Uh,

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Speaker 1: it was you know, it's it's obviously a historic settlement,

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Speaker 1: but you know it's been described by Justice farming officials.

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Speaker 1: This is only the first step. This only solved some

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Speaker 1: of the problems. There's still a lot more on the table,

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Speaker 1: including possible criminal charges as well as of all, penalties

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Speaker 1: aren't addressed on this soil. Volkswagen could end up paying

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Speaker 1: a lot more than that fifteen billion. Give us a

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Speaker 1: sense of how that might add up and who will

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Speaker 1: they pay it to. I understand a significant civil penalties

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Speaker 1: from the federal government. This is something you have been

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Speaker 1: analyzing in your Bloomberg Intelligence research. But could it be

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Speaker 1: another fifteen billion? Would it be five hundred million? Where

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Speaker 1: does this how does this potentially stack up? Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's that's something they were very moment today. They said,

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Speaker 1: we're still in the discovery phase. Uh. They got more

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Speaker 1: than one point five million documents from Volkswagen that they're analyzing. UH,

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Speaker 1: and and this settlement really doesn't affect any of those

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Speaker 1: allegations that the civil penalties would be for violating the

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Speaker 1: Clean Air Act, the environmental law that they violated when

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Speaker 1: they sold these cars. UH. It's significant penalties are on

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Speaker 1: the table. UH, it's whether it's likely to be settled,

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Speaker 1: but we don't know what that number is going to

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Speaker 1: look like and how the the money that they've already

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Speaker 1: agreed to pay, how that's going to affect what the

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Speaker 1: what the eventual number that the Justice Department is going

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Speaker 1: to settle on to to really punish them for what

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Speaker 1: they did. Criminal investigation, what would rise to the level

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Speaker 1: of criminal conduct? Would involve more fines? Would it involve

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Speaker 1: jail time? It depends. There's there's could be both criminal

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Speaker 1: penalties sought against the company itself as well as individuals. UH.

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Speaker 1: Deputy Attorney General Yates said today that they are investigating companies,

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Speaker 1: they're investigating individuals who worked at Volkswagen. UH. There there's

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Speaker 1: monetary penalties. There also is the possibility of jail time, UM,

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Speaker 1: though it's not clear how that would work out. It

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Speaker 1: if the people were you know, German citizens working in Germany.

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Speaker 1: What kind of jurisdiction there would be there, That's still

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Speaker 1: a question that remains to be seen. Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 1: of big questions if it goes that far. What's next?

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Speaker 1: What are you watching next? And what should we be

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Speaker 1: watching nick met next? As Uh, this first settlement has

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Speaker 1: agreed and other charges are pursued. Well, right now, it's

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Speaker 1: a proposed settlement. It undergoes a comment area than the

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Speaker 1: judge needs to approve it, so that should be wrapped

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Speaker 1: up sometime in the fall. Uh. And then consumers will

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Speaker 1: actually need to take action and sell back their car

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Speaker 1: keep looking out for possible criminal charges. Uh. There's also

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Speaker 1: individual states are still pursuing actions. Uh. And and what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen in Europe? They they they still haven't

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Speaker 1: figured out what they're doing for the car owners in Europe.

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Speaker 1: So so really we don't know what the finals have

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Speaker 1: on this is gonna be, but it's it's gonna be high.

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Speaker 1: I'll starting a fifteen billion, my friend. Uh, that's uh,

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Speaker 1: that's not chump changes people used to say. Patrick Ambrosio

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