"For more than a year, Volkswagen executives told the Environmental Protection Agency that discrepancies between the formal air-quality tests on its diesel cars

"For more than a year, Volkswagen executives told the Environmental Protection Agency that discrepancies between the formal air-quality tests on its diesel cars and the much higher pollution levels out on the road were the result of technical issues, not a deliberate attempt to deceive Washington officials." http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Volkswagen-denied-deception-to-EPA-for-nearly-a-6520476.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Volkswagen-... So VW is telling us that this year of lying to the EPA was done completely by these two engineering managers and nobody else in the VW executive staff?