You must point to the laws violated. E.g. Schmidt made a false statement to the California Air Resources Board under the Clean Air Act.
Trial in the court of opinion and mob lynching is not compatible with the Western tenements of law.
>Trial in the court of opinion and mob lynching is not compatible with the Western tenements of law.
Stop trying to shift goalposts, my point is that if any company deserved to be fined 4% of global turnover it's VW and they have currently received a total of $0 in fines even though they have probably increased the likelihood of you getting cancer.
Their annual profit is about $13BN, they were fined $2.8BN which is about 22%. I think that along with imprisoning an exec that was complicit in the lie is a significant and reasonable deterrent/punishment.
As for VW significantly increasing the likelihood of any given arbitrary citizen getting cancer I'd love to see the numbers on that. Sounds like hyperbole to me[0]
[0] http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/06/14/diesel-fu...
Exec has been fined and sentenced to 7 years[0] VW have been fined $2.8B[1]
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/judge-sentences-...
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/judge-approves-larges...