GM Facing Federal Criminal Investigation for Ignition Switch Recall

Description: The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation of General Motors to determine what laws the automaker may have broken leading up to last month’s ignition switch recall. According to Reuters, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is collecting evidence against the automaker, which admitted it had taken at least 10 years to fix defects that led to cars shutting down without warning.