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		philpem on May 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GM lays off engineer who helped expose VW’s diesel... The sad fact is, the regulators are so underfunded they probably can't afford to hire him.

usrusr on May 8, 2019 [–]

Cherry on top, in a perfectly cynical (and hopefully hypothetical!) world: "After five years at the regulator, the car industry had paid him more than he would ever have earned as their employee"

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