Two years and a couple dozen lawyers later, and the next thing Motors Liquidation Corp. knows is that it probably helped a few people enter retirement early.
The investigation concerned nearly 900,000 models on the road, and the agency has ruled that General Motors must cover the repair bill on each one taken in to resolve the gas gauge issue.
If Uncle Sam was to sell tomorrow, he would lose roughly $16.5 billion of the $49.5 billion investment that was put into the company, which is obviously less than ideal.
These cables include several matters between GM and governments from all over the world, such as those of China and Germany as well as the United States.