Barra Defends GM’s Top Lawyer for ‘Tremendous Integrity’
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Senators pressed General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra about retaining the company’s top lawyer and encouraged her to expand a victim compensation program to more cars recalled for ignition-switch defects.
Barra responded that General Counsel Michael Millikin is a key member of her team for fixing the Detroit-based company and that there were “different facts” in the various recalls and it wouldn’t be appropriate to treat other models with faulty switches the way the company is handling 2.59 million small cars that were recalled years after a part was secretly fixed.