‘GM Nod’ Fuels Deadly Defects Adding to Barra’s Challenge
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GM was for years a place where employees agreed to fix problems but never did, feared alerting superiors to car-safety concerns and avoided taking notes in meetings lest they be held liable for product shortcomings.
Those are some of the findings buried within the 325-page investigative report by General Motors Co.’s outside lawyer Anton Valukas, who led a three-month probe seeking to answer why it took the largest U.S. automaker more than a decade to recall