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James Liang engineer for VW was sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay a $200,000 fine.

OTOH Michael Horn CEO of VW and person who signed off on the emissions testing cheating walked away with a 50 million pension.

Of course, you often get no choice in what you do when upper management says 'just do it'. It's that, or asshat exec decides to wreck your career, fire you, etc, etc,

A federal judge in Detroit ... of course..

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In regards to the execs and CEO: I completely agree that it's terrible.

> you often get no choice in what you do when upper management says 'just do it'

You always have a choice. You can quit.

If your boss told you to rob a bank, would you do it? It's a more severe crime but it's still your boss saying "break the law or I'll fire you". It's simply a matter of where you draw the line, of how far into unethical territory you're willing to go for money.