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