| An internal investigation by General Motors has concluded that there was no deliberate cover-up in its decade-long failure to recall millions of small cars with a defective ignition switch, the company’s chief executive said Thursday. |
| Instead, the chief executive, Mary T. Barra, told employees that the lack of action was a result of broad bureaucratic problems and the failure of individual employees in several departments to address a safety problem that the company links to 13 deaths and 47 accidents. |
| The report, which is being given to federal regulators and Congress on Thursday, does not tie Ms. Barra and other senior executives directly to the recall delay, but will probably result in the firing of a number of employees in G.M.’s legal and engineering departments. |
| The release of the internal investigative report was expected to be a turning point in a safety crisis that has consumed General Motors since Feb. 14, when the automaker began a broad recall of millions of small cars equipped with defective ignition switches. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/business/gm-ignition-switch-internal-recall-investigation-report.html?emc=edit_na_20140605 |
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