????通用汽車公司（General Motors）與13起車禍致死事件相關(guān)的召回丑聞迄今余波未平，還有大量遺留問題亟需處理。但有一件事這家公司似乎大可放心，即它的首席執(zhí)行官瑪麗?巴拉將不會受到任何起訴。

????《紐約時報》（The New York Times）報道稱，通用汽車的高管們相信，在前任美國律師安東?R. 瓦盧卡斯結(jié)束調(diào)查后，巴拉就將被證明她在這起召回丑聞中并不存在任何過失。

????通用汽車將于周四上午發(fā)布這項調(diào)查報告的最終結(jié)論。

????這家汽車廠商被控有意忽視所產(chǎn)汽車的內(nèi)在缺陷，導(dǎo)致了多年來多起車禍致死事件。近期它因此被美國交通部（Department of Transportation）和國家公路交通安全管理局（National Highway Traffic Safety Administration）罰款3500萬美元。最近它還在接受司法部（Department of Justice）調(diào)查，最終可能會被開出遠(yuǎn)高于3500萬美元的罰單。

????這家汽車廠商在因點火開關(guān)故障導(dǎo)致車禍致死并隨之大規(guī)模召回后聘請律所開展了深入的調(diào)查。

????《時代》周刊（Times）報道稱，國家公路交通安全管理局代理總監(jiān)大衛(wèi)?J. 弗里德曼表示，沒有“任何記載在案的”文件表明，巴拉在通用汽車執(zhí)行召回前就知道這個故障。

????巴拉此前已經(jīng)在國會就此事接受過兩次質(zhì)詢，并在很多方面成了這家深陷困境的美國車商的形象代言人。不過《時代》周刊特意指出，還無法解釋為什么通用汽車的首席執(zhí)行官沒有更早了解自己產(chǎn)品的這個缺陷，盡管事實表明，這家公司早在2001年就似乎已經(jīng)知道它的點火開關(guān)存在問題。

????而本周二通用汽車稱，公司月銷售業(yè)績達(dá)到了2008年8月以來的最佳水平。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：清遠(yuǎn)

????General Motors still has plenty to deal with in the aftermath of the recall scandal tied to 13 deaths, but one thing it seems they won’t have to deal with is any sort of indictment of the automaker’s CEO Mary Barra.

????The New York Times is reporting that GM officials believe Barra will be cleared of any wrongdoing in the scandal after an investigation by former U.S. attorney Anton R. Valukas.

????GM is expected to release the report’s findings on Thursday morning.

????The automaker is accused of ignoring defects in its cars, which led to deaths for years, and was recently fined $35 million by the Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The automaker is still under investigation by the Department of Justice, which may impose a fine that would dwarf those of the DoT and NHTSA.

????The automaker hired law firms to look into its massive car recall following deaths related to faulty ignition switches.

????The Times reports that David J. Friedman, acting director of NHTSA, said he doesn’t “have any records of” documents proving Barra knew about the problem before GM issued the recall.

????Barra has testified twice before Congress on the matter, and became in many ways the public face of the beleaguered U.S. automaker. The Times notes that it has not yet been explained why the CEO of GM did not know about the defects in its cars earlier, despite the fact that the company seems to have known about the faulty ignition switches that led to the crashes since around 2001.

????On Tuesday GM reported its best monthly sales results since August 2008.