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GM Fined for Late Report on Ignition Switch Recall
General Motors Co. is accruing $7,000 per day in civil fines for missing an April 3 deadline to fully answer questions about its belated recall of 2.6 million ignition switches linked to 13 fatalities.
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General Motors Co. is accruing $7,000 per day in civil fines for missing an April 3 deadline to fully answer questions about its belated recall of 2.6 million ignition switches linked to 13 fatalities.
GM says it has filed some 271,000 pages of documents in response to 107 questions asked by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency says not all the material is relevant.
GM responded to roughly two-thirds of NHTSA's questions but says it can't answer the others until it completes an internal investigation. In a stern letter to the company on Tuesday, NHTSA dismisses that excuse as "irrelevant" to the company's legal obligation.
NHTSA threatens to turn over the matter to the U.S. Dept. of Justice as early as today. The department, which is conducting a criminal probe into why GM waited 10 years to issue the recall, could sue GM for responses to NHTSA's unanswered questions.
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