{"id":2353,"date":"2008-02-25T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/25\/volkert-the-man-volkswagen-would-forget\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T09:17:53","slug":"volkert-the-man-volkswagen-would-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/02\/25\/volkert-the-man-volkswagen-would-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkert: The Man Volkswagen Would Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/02\/24\/volkert-volkswagen-conviction-face-markets-cx_vr_0222autofacescan03.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080229_vw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/080229_vw.jpg\" title=\"080229_vw.jpg\" alt=\"080229_vw.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Volkswagen<strong> <\/strong>is hoping that it can put a scandal involving sex, bribery and corruption in the rearview mirror following the conviction of Klaus Volkert, the former head of the company&#8217;s workers council, on 48 counts of inciting fraud. The 48-year-old Volkert, who was the main representative of Volkswagen&#8217;s 300,000 workers, was sentenced on Friday to two years and nine months in jail after he was found guilty of abusing his position to pay out $3 million in illegal bonuses, including benefits to a former Brazilian lover totaling $590,000. Volkert&#8217;s protestations that he had done nothing wrong and that &#8220;class prejudice&#8221; was making him&#8211;a labor representative&#8211;the scapegoat, won him no sympathy from the court. &#8220;He knew that he had no right to the payments,&#8221; said Judge Gerstin Dreyer in her ruling. &#8220;Volkert did not let up and kept coming back for more.&#8221; Image source: newsimg.bbc.co.uk. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/02\/24\/volkert-volkswagen-conviction-face-markets-cx_vr_0222autofacescan03.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: Global<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><font class=\"tdtext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\"><\/a><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\">Volkswagen<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/02\/24\/volkert-volkswagen-conviction-face-markets-cx_vr_0222autofacescan03.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen is hoping that it can put a scandal involving sex, bribery and corruption in the rearview mirror following the conviction of Klaus Volkert, the former head of the company&#8217;s workers council, on 48 counts of inciting fraud. The 48-year-old Volkert, who was the main representative of Volkswagen&#8217;s 300,000 workers, was sentenced on Friday to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-volkswagen","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}