Professor Elam

Wed Sept 23, 2015

As reported here it did not look god for the VW CEO,

he quit leaving his mess for he next CEO to clearn up.

This was bound to happen but would not justice be better served if he had to fix what went wrong?

9/23 VW CEO Winterkorn resigns.   Now read his comments

In a statement issued by the company Winterkorn said he was "shocked by the events of the past few days."

"Above all, I am stunned that misconduct on such a scale was possible in the Volkswagen Group."

So he has chosen to go with the tory that he did not know. As I said in a previous post this really does not look any better than knowing and denying, in this instance he is saying he is either not close enough to know what is going on day to day or he failed to establish a culture of ethics that would prevent such behavior, either way he is out.

But is that justice?  Now someone else has to clean up his mess. What do you think.

His statement recalls this famous scene from Casablanca.