United States v. Volkswagen AG (E.D. Mich., 2017)
Key Insight: Spoliation
Nature of Case: Plea Agreement – Conspiracy, Obstruction of Justice, Entry of Goods by False Statement
Electronic Data Involved: USB drives, hard drives
Keywords: instruction to destroy documents, late notice of DOJ litigation hold, failure to preserve backup disks, instruction to store documents on removable media rather than network drives