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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: legal issues in the news, and Today, Bloomberg Law host

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Speaker 1: Greg Store discusses a US Justice Department lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler,

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Speaker 1: which accuses the automaker of violating US clean air rules.

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Speaker 1: He speaks with Bloomberg News auto reporter Jamie Butters tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit about this lawsuit. What does it

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Speaker 1: allege specifically that Fiat Chrysler might have done. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: this lawsuit, this filing, it's a civil lawsuit, is not

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Speaker 1: not a criminal case, and it's sort of a ratcheting

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Speaker 1: up of a complaint that the e PA made in

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Speaker 1: the waning days of the Obama administration. They sent a

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Speaker 1: notice in mid January, kind of on the tail end

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Speaker 1: of the Detroit Auto Show saying Krysler had software in

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Speaker 1: the control devices of their diesel engines that allowed more

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Speaker 1: allowed emissions and that those worth those or pieces of

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Speaker 1: software they had not told the e p A about.

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Speaker 1: And Chrysler is saying, you know, well, we're sorry. We

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Speaker 1: thought these were sort of standard and everyone knew about

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Speaker 1: this and it's really no big deal. And the e

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Speaker 1: p A is saying, you put in software, and that

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Speaker 1: is by definition cheating. So you're in big trouble. Uh Now,

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Speaker 1: the question, or you know, is is this sort of

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Speaker 1: VW like right? And Chrysler has really resisted and they said, look,

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Speaker 1: we put the software in just for safety purposes so

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Speaker 1: that the engines last as long as they're supposed to,

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Speaker 1: and we did not make any efforts to specifically have

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Speaker 1: our cars get by the test. So the two sides

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Speaker 1: had been negotiating over this. What do we know about

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Speaker 1: why those negotiations apparently fell apart? Yeah, you know, negotiations

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Speaker 1: are sort of the polite term. It's certainly it's the

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Speaker 1: term that Chrysler us is another way to look at

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Speaker 1: them as be arguments. They've been having this argument for months,

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Speaker 1: and it sounds like they just keep saying the same

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Speaker 1: things over and over at each other, which is, we're

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Speaker 1: not cheating. Maybe this was a paperworkare maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: and the regulators saying you call it a paperwork are.

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Speaker 1: But that is by definition cheating, And they just keep

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Speaker 1: going round and round. And so maybe by taking it

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Speaker 1: to accord, getting a judge involved, it can put pressure

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Speaker 1: on both sides to come to a settlement. As Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: news on a reporter Jamie Butter speaking at Bloomberg Law

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Speaker 1: host Greg's store. You can listen to Bloomberg Law weekdays

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Speaker 1: at one pm Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Among the top legal stories from Bloomberg Law, Target has

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Speaker 1: agreed to pay almost nineteen million dollars to subtle investigations

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Speaker 1: by dozens of states into that massive hacking attack in

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Speaker 1: hackers approke into targets database and still personal information of

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Speaker 1: millions of customers. The settlement calls for Target to develop

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Speaker 1: an information security program, among other things. Two years ago,

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Speaker 1: the chain agreed to pay ten million dollars to settle

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Speaker 1: claims by customers who said they were affected by the

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Speaker 1: data breach. And that's this morning's Bloomberg Law Whee. If

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