Why did AG Holder fine Toyota $1.2B, but not GM for a similar problem? Favoritism for GM?

Question

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/18/us-gm-recall-safety-idUSBREA2H16720140318
GM names new vehicle safety chief after ignition-switch recall
Mar 18, 2014
'GM said that when the ignition switch was jostled, a key could turn off the car's engine and disable airbags, sometimes while traveling at high speed. Barra previously apologized for GM's failure to catch the problem sooner.

'The decade-long process that led to last month's ignition-switch recall of such older GM models as the 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt and 2003-2007 Saturn Ion has led to government criminal and civil investigations, congressional hearings and class-action lawsuits in the United States and Canada. All ask why GM took so long to address a problem it has said first came to its attention in 2001.'


http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/toyotas-1-2-billion-fine-warning-general-motors-n56941
Toyota's $1.2 Billion Fine a Warning for General Motors?
March 19th 2014
'Attorney General Eric Holder announced a record $1.2 billion penalty on Toyota for misleading the public and regulators about issues involving unintended acceleration in its vehicles, questions were raised about another automaker potentially in the cross hairs of the Justice Department: General Motors.'

Answer 1

GM was protected by bankruptcy rules. What gets me is that not one penny of the federal settlement goes to the victims. It goes to the government. How does it feel. Someone you love is worth $200,000.00 in a law suit, but the fed earns millions of dollars per person.

Answer 2

GM's recall was last week. The Toyota case took 4 years.



Maybe you should, you know, be patient, young grasshopper

Answer 3

Favoritism for G.M.

Answer 4

because GM paid the extortion to the DNC

Answer 5

I second bobs answer