Posted on 11/20/2014 9:54:01 AM PST by jazusamo
The attorney general of Arizona said on Wednesday that the state had filed suit against General Motors, claiming that the automaker had defrauded the state’s consumers of an estimated $3 billion.
The suit is the first major legal action against G.M. over its record number of recalls this year, most notable among them one for a defective ignition switch in 2.6 million small cars that was delayed for a decade.
The complaint was harsh and unsparing in its criticism of G.M., suggesting that the automaker intentionally misled consumers through its advertising, website and public statements, and that some of its top leaders were complicit in the alleged misdeeds.
It said “New G.M.,” the term used for the company that emerged from bankruptcy in 2009, “was not born innocent.”
“It is difficult to find a brand whose reputation has taken as great a beating as has the New G.M. brand starting in February 2014 when the first ignition-switch recall occurred,” the complaint said.
In filing suit, Arizona has broken from a group of 48 state attorneys general that has been pursuing a multistate investigation into G.M. for its handling of the ignition-switch defect. The state had been on the executive committee of that multistate inquiry, led by South Carolina and Ohio.
“We’re proceeding with our own suit because it’s the best way to protect the citizens of Arizona,” Attorney General Thomas C. Horne, a Republican, said in an interview. “General Motors represented that it was taking care of the safety of its cars, and in fact there were serious defects that it did not disclose to the public for years.”
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The first time around, Obamatollah screwed the Secured Bondholders to reward his commie union buddies.
I have a pre-government motors Corvette. For 5 months there has been a “safety” recall for these because the dim headlights don’t work. I have been told by a GM customer “service” supervisor to not drive my car at night. I will never buy another gm product.
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