joining me for more is the value businesses aaron tilton aaron thanks for joining us now aaron what more can you tell us about the charges these and friends are facing was you're talking about there the 3 men stand accused of basically engaging in market manipulation now as the top brass v.w. they have the responsibility of informing their stockholders investors of the business situation basically saying if they were going to face any type of massive fines or in time of problems they need to inform their investors otherwise the investors can't actually engage in their investing as you would typically expect it now you knew for years that they were likely to face fines in connection to this diesel scandal however they failed to inform their investors in a timely fashion no prosecutors have forum quite a while been investigating v.w. in relation to the diesel scandal but this is the 1st time they're really going after the top brass of the company in this way because previous investigations tend to focus more upon the inner workings of the company as opposed to just the board of directors a