High-ranking U.S.-based Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt has been sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay a $400,000 fine for his part in a decade-long diesel-emissions cheating ...

Oliver Schmidt ... pleaded guilty to a criminal charge in Detroit in September for his role in the automaker's diesel emissions and is expected to plead guilty on May 5. On March 10, Volkswagen ...

A federal magistrate in Detroit could sign paperwork approving the extradition of Oliver Schmidt ... drama is unfolding five years after the diesel emissions scandal emerged and as several ...

Just as the North American International Auto Show kicks off in Detroit, a Volkswagen executive ... According to the criminal complaint, Oliver Schmidt, a VW general manager who was stationed ...